Back in Black (song) - Covers and Other Versions

Covers and Other Versions

Two live versions of the song later appeared on both versions of the album Live, as well as the Australian tour edition of Stiff Upper Lip. It has been covered by bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Hives, Steriogram, Living Colour, Foo Fighters with Jack Black, Travis and Colombian pop singer Shakira. Other versions include:

• 1984 Beastie Boys, sampled without permission on "Rock Hard"
• 1986 Boogie Down Productions, sampled without permission on "Dope Beat"
• 1989 Red Hot Chili Peppers started using "Back in Black" as an intro and outro jam to some of their own songs at various live shows. In 1990 they played it as an ending jam to their own song, "Sexy Mexican Maid" on the television show, Night Music. In 1999 the band once again used "Back in Black" as an intro jam to their songs at a few of their live shows.
• 1995 Kid Rock, demo with no vocals he scratch over the riff and added a hip hop beat to it, he also covers it in concert usually just the riff in the middle of "Devil Without a Cause" but he will cover it fully occasionally.
• 1995 Australian band Regurgitator, on Fuse Box: The Alternative Tribute
• 1998 Brazilian band Motorocker, on their debut album Igreja Universal do Reino do Rock. Motorocker was considered by both Angus Young and Brian Johnson the 'best AC/DC cover in the world'.
• 2001 Sampled by Five on the song "Lay All Your Loving On Me" from the album Kingsize.
• 2001 Hayseed Dixie, on A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC
• 2003 Living Colour, on Collideøscope
• 2003 Back in Baroque... The String Tribute to AC/DC
• 2004 Shakira, on Live & Off the Record
• 2004 Six Feet Under, on Graveyard Classics 2
• 2004 ApologetiX, on New & Used Hits: The Best of ApologetiX Vol. 1 & 2
• 2005 Wing, on Wing sings AC/DC
• 2006 Art Brut, sampled without permission on a live recording of "Formed A Band"
• 2007 Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue recorded live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
• 2007 Public Enemy, Black is Back, a revamped version done in tribute to AC/DC. This is a reworked version as the original that was unreleased on album due to legal red tape, but it can viewed freely on YouTube.
• 2010 Muse, played the song on the third day of Big Day Out in Australia, with Nic Cester from Jet on vocals. Since then, Muse plays the Back In Black solo as an outro to "Hysteria" in most live performances.
• 2010 Carlos Santana on his cover album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time; this version features rapper Nas.
• 2010 Skindred on Metal Hammer's The Metal Forge, Vol.2: A Tribute to AC/DC
• 2012 Anastacia on her covers album It's a Man's World