Whole Lotta Rosie

Whole Lotta Rosie is a rock song by the Australian hard rock band AC / DC from 1977. It appeared on the fourth album of the band Let There Be Rock , and in 1978 as a single.

Emergence

Intro Whole Lotta Rosie , Powerchords

The main riff of Whole Lotta Rosie was initially part of the piece Dirty Eyes , which was created in 1976 and was intended for an EP , but did not appear. Dirty Eyes was released on the Bonfire box set in 1997 .

Whole Lotta Rosie was written by Angus Young , Malcolm Young and Bon Scott and was recorded in the January / February 1977 sessions for Let There Be Rock . It was produced by Harry Vanda and George Young .

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The song tells of a woman who the then singer of the band Bon Scott met after a performance in Tasmania and with whom he spent a night. The first stanza describes their bulky body size (42 ″ -39 ″ -56 ″) and weight "nineteen stone " (about 120 kg). In a 1998 interview, Angus Young recalled:

"We'd been in Tasmania and after the show [Bon Scott] said he was going to check out a few clubs. He said he'd got about 100 yards down the street when he heard this yell: 'Hey! Bon! ' He looked around and saw this leg and thought: 'Oh well!' From what he said, there was this Rosie woman and a friend of hers. They were plying him with drinks and Rosie said to him: 'This month I've slept with 28 famous people,' and Bon went: 'Oh yeah ?!' Anyway, in the morning he said he woke up pinned against the wall, he said he opened one eye and saw her lean over to her friend and whisper: '29! ' There's very few people who'll go out and write a song about a big fat lady, but Bon said it was worthy. "

When performing live

Stage of the Black Ice tour with “Rosie”, 2009 in Madrid

Whole Lotta Rosie is one of AC / DC's most popular tracks and featured on all of the band's live albums. Between the entrance riffs, the audience usually chants “Angus!”. For a while, the stage show included an oversized inflatable female figure.

Cover versions

• Guns N 'Roses , 1987 on the single Welcome to the Jungle and 1988 on the album "Live from the Jungle"
• Electric Hippies , 1995 as a contribution to the AC / DC tribute album "Fuse Box"
• WASP , 1996 on the album "Still Not Black Enough"
• The King , 1998 on the album "Gravelands"
• Galneryus , 2007 on the EP "Voices from the Past"
• Steel Panther , 2010 on the AC / DC tribute album "The Metal Forge Volume Two"
• Bullet for My Valentine , 2013 on the album "Temper Temper"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Murray Englehart: AC / DC: Maximum Rock & Roll , Verlag It-Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0061133923 , p. 162
2. ↑ Interview with Bon Scott, included in the Bonfire Box Set, Disc 4
3. ↑ Interview with Jerry Ewing in the British music magazine VOX, February 1998, p. 78