Popularity
In May 2001, Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) celebrated its 75th anniversary by naming the Best Australian Songs of all time, as decided by a 100-member industry panel. "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was ranked as the ninth song on the list. The song is regularly played during stoppages at AFL matches at the ANZ stadium in Sydney.
The song was also used in the 2003 movie School of Rock during the end credits sequence when Jack Black's character, Dewey Finn, is giving his kids an "after-school lesson" on rock.
In 2010, this song was ranked No. 3 in Triple M's Ultimate 500 Rock Countdown in Melbourne, Australia. The top five were all AC/DC songs.
In the third episode of "Empire of Cricket", a 2009 British BBC TV documentary about the history of Cricket, "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is played over the opening credits. The episode details the history of Australian cricket and its rise to dominance.
The Heavy Metal band Metallica play the song at every concert over the PA before they go on.
A clip of the song's intro is often used by the Golf Channel before commercial breaks.
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Famous quotes containing the word popularity:
“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
—Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)
“The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)