“I thought, ‘I’ll never write a song with Eddie again. This is the closest I can come to it.’ When I told Joe about the dream and played him the thing he went, ‘Oh man. Hell yeah. Let’s finish that.

With 15 tracks, Black Ice has the longest running time of any AC/DC studio album, just short of an hour, and perhaps a little overlong, with a few songs, such as Money Made and Smash ‘N’ Grab, just ...