The New Issue of Rolling Stone: AC/DC

Just in time for their new album Black Ice to top the charts in over two dozen countries, AC/DC grace the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone. Click below to read an excerpt from the cover story, as well as see behind the scenes video from the cover shoot and a gallery of the band through the years — from their bar-band beginnings to stadium-sized icons.

• Cover Story: AC/DC and the Gospel of Rock & Roll
• Photo Gallery: AC/DC Through the Years
• Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes at AC/DC's Rolling Stone Cover Shoot

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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