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Dear Bill;
I was about 6 years old when I seen the first time the IYWB album cover.. Being young and never seen something like that I found it quite disturbing...Still till this day it still reminds me back then. Was that a real person getting killed on stage in the photos? It looked like angus young, but maybe it was a bumb off the street they hired for that part too stab him with a guitar neck.
Can you give me any information on if that was real or just rendered photo too look like that...
Hello Eric,
Thanks for your question. Hopefully you didn't really think that someone was killed so they could make the album cover?
Anyway, that is in fact Angus Young on the front cover (with Bon singing away next to him). It is merely simple special effects that they used to create the album cover, as they also did for the video of the song.
Best Regards,
Bill
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