AC/DC Night Stalker segment on Entertainment Tonight (1985)

During the Night Stalker case, Angus Young and Brian Johnson appeared on Entertainment Tonight to address the allegations that their song "Night Prowler," was Richard Ramirez' inspiration for his crime spree.

[@tatianadagnone2636]

Lmao it's even funnier that even Ramírez thought that this was ridiculous

[@user-ib5qw9rb2j]

Wait how do u know?

[@moonsiemeda5054]

It's not the first time AC/DC or their song was blamed for inspiring a murder. Just befiore the world was made aware of Richard Ramirez/the Night Stalker; NY in June 1984 the case of Ricky Kasso. When he was arrested he had on a AC/DC shirt.

[@angelstar9459]

what do u mean? im not following

[@randyreno7118]

@@moonsiemeda5054 thought it was a Hello Kitty shirt

[@itsnotleah10]

huh wait what did he think was ridiculous

[@caityl.charnoski7774]

The 80s was something else...

[@sketchyold]

They sure were. And it’s reassuring to see that 35-40 years later American society has progressed to the point of being offended by the gender of a toy potato and Dr. Seuss books.

[@evildeities8750]

@@sketchyold Yep, some would say society went backwards. And I don't think they're wrong.

[@ihaveautism666]

wish i was alive

[@dr.victorfrankenschtein7053]

Gen Z are puzzies

[@cringefest8778]

@@sketchyold weeeeee weweeeeee

[@didncozosksma4466]

1:10 “It came from the back of my sisters sewing machine” The way Angus said is extremely comedic. He sounds so fed up

[@caprise-music6722]

Even I got fed up when he proposed what it stood for. Anti christ devil something. Come on!! So damn silly. Childish conspiracy theories

[@klepta1674]

@@caprise-music6722 it literally means alternating current/direct current lmao

[@spkymessage7346]

"Anti-Christ Devils Child" GOOD LORD 😂😂😂😂 I've been hearing that for years & it never gets old of how ridiculous that sounds. AC/DC made music that was supposed to make you laugh & head bang not go out & kill people, if you are easily influenced by a song or movie or video game then you are the one that needs serious help otherwise you should have enough common decency to realize it's just a song

[@kingofdragontown9680]

I still think Dokken being translated to Devil's Organization Killing Kids Every Night is the most ridiculous one I've ever heard. It's just the singer's last name, PMRC.

[@phoenixzappa7366]

Hail SATAN! 🤘

[@x8nis]

@@phoenixzappa7366 dafuq?

[@lc4295]

Also After Christ/Devil Comes

[@goreruption]

I agree but you’d be surprised how satan works. People sell their souls nowadays and make music for him that influences and feeds people.

[@pdfortune]

It's funny how scared my parent's generation was in the 80's over music. AC/DC seems so tame compared to stuff that came out in the 90's onward.

[@sketchyold]

Indeed. My parents (step dad esp) were horrified when I got into Kiss when I was a seven year-old kid in the late 70s. Fortunately, I’d outgrown them by the time I was 12, and developed a more sophisticated taste for Quiet Riot and Krokus lmao. They just LOVED the cover of Metal Health.

[@tplandes749]

Alternative current/Direct current dumb ass people. How do you play an electric guitar without electricity?

[@RudyHarlanPhantomBoom]

Alternating current & Direct current. AC & DC. It's electrical power.

[@andrewwhite1585]

like brian said..means power lol

[@caprise-music6722]

Powaa!!

[@RudyHarlanPhantomBoom]

@@caprise-music6722 "Powaa! Powaa!" - Prince John from Robin Hood

[@Fix_It_Again_Tony]

I was interested in electricity and electronics as a kid. It's one of the things that originally drew me to the band. That and they one of the top rock acts ever.

[@Tchernobog]

that poor guy, all he wanted was some underwear and was too embarrassed to pay for it in the store. The shame was so strong that he had to sneak out into the night to gather pairs. Then his theme song gets associated with a murdering monster. Give the guy a break!

[@__emilee.grace__]

@Blackflag you defending a serial killer?

[@nojiminnolife13]

@@__emilee.grace__ it's not defending, it's more like explaining.

[@alishagalindo3262]

AHAHAHA

[@mattousley2125]

AC/DC forever

[@FaydsterTV]

“Night Prowler” has one of the best riffs in Hard Rock.

[@bekahb6890]

My mum used to be very close with the Young Brothers back in the late 80s -90s when she would tour with them, she would babysit their kids, have dinners with them and would wash their clothes etc. When I heard about this whole claim I talked to her about it, she said that is was so ridiculous because they were nothing like what they were portrayed to be like, they did worship satan or anything like that, and they were just regular guys, and the whole connection to the night stalker they told her was absolutely ridiculous and so stretched to have some kind of influence to Ramirez’s actions.

[@martytruelove5026]

Night Prowler gets NO air time because of that POS Loser,I really like the beat to most music before really listening to the words and this song was no exception.It will be my FAV AC/DC song always.All the best bands have their music unnecessarily dissected to try to prove they have alternate meaning.1970's definitely won when it came to The Best Rock N Roll Bands.

[@Jedizen07]

I remember showing my mom this actual clip ( recorded on VHS at the time ). My mother was an ardent PMRC supporter. And, as a 16 year old kid who loved AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick ( yep, even them with " Gonna Raise Hell " ) etc., it was EXTREMELY frustrating to see adults accuse my favorite bands of things that had NOTHING to do with the controversies being delivered to them by crazy Christian fundamentalists ( some of which were my own neighbors ). Ironically, some of those very crazy people ( including my mother ) are NOW fans of the music they chastised!!

[@polskaboi9733]

thank god they didnt ban ACDC

[@matty7006]

But rap can literally have lyrics talking about rape, abuse and murder and nobody says anything?

[@79tazman]

Just like Ozzy was being accused of making a kid commit suicide because the song Suicide solution LMFAO!!! So pathetic it really is

[@kingofdragontown9680]

Easier to blame an inanimate record than accept an entire societal issue. Same with Judas Priest in 1990.

[@TheDicamillo]

Suicide solution is about Bon Scott....the guy who wrote Night Prowler. Its about his death due to alcohol overdose in London in 1980. Bon and Ozzy were good mates.

[@kingofdragontown9680]

@@TheDicamillo Heard mixed stories. I've heard the bassist in Ozzy Osbourne at the time wrote it about Ozzy's drinking.

[@juicyfruit6311]

@@kingofdragontown9680 Well, Bob Daisley got writing co-writing credit for it. He denied it was about Bon Scott and he pointed out he was good "mates" with Bon. Bob said it was about Ozzy and his penchant for the drink.

[@randylawson3619]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[@valentinaflores1937]

Angus Young is so cute 😍😍😍

[@andrewwhite1585]

Why is Brian's face perfect 😐 jawline, cheekbones, eyes..very handsome guy then. still kinda is. But this was BS saying he was inspired by this song

[@belle9438]

I remember all that shit. I was embarrassed to be an American. I was embarrassed again this past year. Never I thought that would happen.

[@magamaga1827]

I'd give my left nut to go back to America in 1985 compared to the crap show woke liberal BLM loving scum we are today.

[@magamaga1827]

As a NYC teenager in 1985 when this album came out, trying to convince my blessed Irish mother that I wasn't a devil worshipper in hindsight is hilarious all these years later.

[@lilahdog568]

Congress wasted time deciding if there should be warning labels. Let the artists make their music and focus on more important issues that actually affect people.

[@joshuabrooks4907]

Kurt loder looks so different here, but Brian and Angus haven't changed a bit.

[@SearchIndex]

🤣

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

You need an eye-check dude😂

[@magamaga1827]

And just a short 3 years later, NWA would be able to go around rapping about F the Police. And ACDC was a problem? Good lord.

[@farioxx]

I love ac/dc don't take me wrong but... "You won't feel the steel till it's hanging out your back" ? "No one's gonna yell attack"? C'mon, this song is not about sneaking into your girlfriend's room; this song is clearly about killing.

[@79tazman]

Better not listen to it then

[@user-yl4lf9mh1w]

So is the Bible

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

Ever heard of a metaphor? Do you really think that the song "Give The Dog A Bone" is about feeding your pet? Or "The Jack" about playing cards? Or "Kissin' Dynamite" about smooching with explosives? Shall I continue?

[@farioxx]

Samuel Feynman Tribute page Those expressions are well known... For years actually. Tell me what kind of metaphor “Steel hanging out your back” is? Because all you’re saying is “It’s all metaphor”. If they can’t even explain it so that it doesn’t look like a killing song you think you will? 🤣

[@mariuszw9665]

@@farioxx And why do you think "steel hanging out your back" is about killing? If you make those kind of statements you need to explain what do you mean by that at first. How is that about killing?

[@Andrew-ve9ls]

Brian looks fed up 😂 but ill be honest, he was very handsome back then

[@ChrissCross1]

Bullwinkle Rocks!! Angus Rocks!! 🤘🏼

[@mrclangclang8008]

Happy birthday bon scott

[@uyoebyik]

They looked so young there

[@FERALDOG4]

Anything to avoid personal accountability. Blame a band for being a murderer.. ridiculous.

[@bradyfry8031]

Aye aye owh shake your foundations!

[@chrisbridges655]

That interviewer was clueless.

[@netaZzz]

That's what Night Prowler is about 👌 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 sure

[@robertmackenzie2808]

Angus should have said, "No, it means alternating current / Direct current which equals Power (Rock 'n Roll) hence the lightning bolt in the middle..

[@DJB99]

Shazbot..... Na noo, Na noo!

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Brian Francis Johnson De Luca (Dunston, 5 de octubre de 1947) es un cantante y compositor británico. Es conocido por ser el tercer vocalista de la banda británica-australiana de hard rock AC/DC.

[@maryellenyarusso7029]

Charles Manson was inspired by the Beatles Helter Skelter

[@nojiminnolife13]

yesss but richard ramírez wasn't inspired by ac/dc

[@ilovegoodak]

@@nojiminnolife13 richard was actually. he was a total fan of acdc. and his favourite song was Night prowler tho. Coincidence? nah.

[@YouAreMySunshine2]

@@nojiminnolife13 yes, yes he was. He wore their hat and talked about this song.

[@satanswife2546]

@@nojiminnolife13 have you heard of his case at all

[@sentimentalbloke185]

He didn't understand that it was about children's playground equipment, specifically a slide. lol Not the brightest spark, old chuck.

[@TheDmanMA]

80s ruled....best period of time ever........fight me.

[@eijiroinouye4115]

I will say that Table Dancers like to play these songs 🎵

[@joshwesley5789]

Angus in that bowinkle tshirt....gd thats awesome.

[@trevormerren2329]

The interviewer looks like he could go in for a Mr. Bean look a like competition and kill it.

[@charliegeorge9393]

Angus talking about Bon wrote the lyrics and how abrupt he was about being dead - 5 years after. Not a lot of love there sadly...

[@sentimentalbloke185]

Angus should've explained that the song was about snowdropping, which is the Australian slang term for stealing washed clothes from someone else's washing line, specifically women's underwear.

[@ReneeNme]

Big deal if the song might have been written about Richard Ramirez. The song Killer on the Loose by Thin Lizzy was written around the legend of Jack the Ripper. Mr. Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne was written around the legend of Aleister Crowley (an occultist), etc. It's just music, for pities sake.

[@andromedastar4900]

It wasn't written about him at all...in fact the song was made years before Ramirez's crime spree. It has absolutely nothing to do with him. He just thought the song was cool and interpreted it the way he wanted to.

[@97warlock]

kids? i was 15 and still listen to them. yet all theses rockstars always say the kids.,

[@shamekabrown7421]

It’s from my sister sewing machine

[@gordinistanopolis]

The Beatles suffered the same problem with Helter Skelter Charles Manson and his cronies didn't even know what a Helter Skelter was as its a British corkscrew funfair slide not readily known in the US

[@joeyoddo]

Manson: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWisfoZsZa6ej6Msi=ksk-rNzrhORcP12L

[@s.n.a.k.e.plissken]

"...and you don't feel the steel till it's hangin' outcha' back-" 🤨

[@TheMadDabbler]

AC/DC is in no way responsible. However, having said that, if the song is about a panty thief, it's one violent panty thief. "And you don't feel the steel till it's hanging out your back."

[@TJ-kk5zf]

you shook me all night long was about pepper

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

there was another segment

[@paulgallagher6764]

Angus said A guy , since dead wrote the lyrics , Bon Scott ... Didn't mention he wrote lyrics to back n black

[@ii-wt7jq]

Because he didn't, how do you write a song that is a tribute to your own death. Think

[@charliegeorge9393]

@@ii-wt7jq you shook me all night long - defo Bon lyrics for me

[@Superman_305]

And the same people who was complaining about that same tried to say AC/DC stood for Antichrist devil child 🤦‍♂️ when the band hot their name from off a sewing machine which it means alternating current/direct current but the same goes now as it did back then if you don't like something don't listen to it or don't watch it's that simple.

[@RTWUROTTS]

Angus says Lyrics , From a guy , Bon Scott Since dead Soooooo Disrespectful Bon , Made them ..........

[@charliegeorge9393]

yeah, not very nice at all... makes you wonder

[@flaviamoura25]

Queria a tradução 😪

[@priscillasantis11]

idem!

[@AfonsoEGM]

Angus basicamente diz que Night Prowler é sobre um cara roubando roupa íntima, e não sobre um assassino à espreita. O entrevistador pergunta se AC/DC realmente significa "anticristo/filho do demônio" e a resposta é que o nome foi tirado da parte de trás da máquina de costura da irmã do Angus.

[@flaviamoura25]

@@AfonsoEGM muito obrigado ❤

[@swiggityswoater4191]

Does anyone know what the song is at 0:03

[@polskaboi9733]

Shake your foundations

[@swiggityswoater4191]

PolskaBoi thank you

[@laguna2869]

angus accent is so strange

[@ryangioia2358]

He was born in Scotland and moved to Australia with his family when he was around 7 or 8 years old. Maybe that’s why

[@johnnyb9218]

There's no Scottish accent (I lived in Scotland for 2 years and London for 6 months and as an Aussie I can't detect it) but I hear a mix of slight Cockney & broad Australian.

[@miguelanguelmoralramon2887]

AC DC numer 1 ok 👌

[@alia235]

Love AC/DC but “you don’t feel the steel until it’s hanging out your back…”. Not about a panty thief…lol.

[@paulshamblin6260]

100% talking about killing people. It's a song. Fantasy. Don't kill people. Bon was an artist. Don't watch Halloween and kill people.

[@tristam3855]

WHAT??

[@davidprice7162]

I love acdc, but come on Angus, night prowler is about breaking into a women's apartment at night, not that means anything. There's much worse songs put there. Every drill rap song talking about killing the opps and even disses the people already killed.

[@skateshacksample1_guest]

ac/dc for spiritual reality and crypto reality alternating and direct current

[@Motorhead-y3]

Wearing Bullwinkle 🤟

[@Vendetta_Armada80]

Damn the 70s had it rough but 2022 has gotten worse 😳

[@comeon718]

Can't blame ACDC for what that SICKO dun ACDC are the best band in the fking world KEEP ON ROCK BOYS 😎✌

[@markshaver3814]

If rock music didnt get back lash something would be wrong.

[@Beans360]

"Warning labels on records who's lyrics are judged objectional" - So no song with any open meaning, interpretation or subjectivity. So Cardi B for example. Not to sound like Ben Shapiro but I don't think WAP is open to interpretation.

[@izil1fe]

1:04

[@Fix_It_Again_Tony]

"Anti-Christ Devil's Child" What the actual F? The whole devil worship scare craze in the 80's was just bizarre. Too many bible beaters realizing that young people just didn't find the traditions compelling. In their eyes if you weren't a Christian you might as well worship the devil. Night Prowler is my favorite song on the album I think, and that's saying a lot because that album is so good. The blues guitar is just so awesome in that song. "And you don't feel the steel 'til it's hanging out your back!" Shazbot, nanu nanu.

[@davehendrix671]

put a warning label on beyonce

[@ironclad452]

lol... ACDC is not for kids. It's not dangerous, but the lyrics are definitely not child friendly

[@davehendrix671]

and rap at least heavy metal guys were shooting themselves not everybody else over tennis shoes

[@notme-mc9jh]

I dont think these dudes should of been blamed for the night stalker😂😂😂 its kind of silly looking back now. However, Night Prowler is about a serial killer and not a peeping tom stealing underwear haha so 😜again it's stupid to blame a band for one man's actions but...yea.

[@no.0neofjungledream793]

No it's not about killing, but its easy to see where alot of people, (my self included at one point) can misinterpret the lyrics to be more evil then they actually are. The songs actually about sneaking out to see your girlfriend, the whole first verse of the song is basically what going on through the person's head as they are trying to get to their girlfriends house. Is wasn't about wanting to hurt someone it was more about being paranoid that someone was going to hurt / kill you.

[@lc4295]

@@no.0neofjungledream793 you’re not all there if you believe that nonsense 🙄

[@no.0neofjungledream793]

@@lc4295 what nonsense are you referring to all I said in this comment that I posted a year ago that the lyrics can be miss interpreted, I'm not the person you should targeting dude. Do some research before trying to insult someone

[@lc4295]

@@no.0neofjungledream793 the nonsense I’m referring to is the explanation Agnus gave of what the song is about. There’s no way anyone will think about stealing underwear from a clothesline when listening to that song.

[@Acducec]

I guess if you make a Devil movie you worship the Devil lol Its called ART Asre Wipe

[@codeblue89]

“Accomplices” 😂🤣

[@c4ssierockerz876]

BHAHAHAHAH

[@JohnBGood-ry9wj]

“And you don't feel the steel Till it's hanging out your back” .....I don’t know Angus it seems the lyrics are a little more than a guy stealing underwear off of a clothes line🤥

[@MidnightIsolde]

I agree. I feel that they felt the need to downplay it tbh. And it's basically their take in The Rolling Stones Midnight Rambler - a character who is definitely some type of spree killer/rapist in what is a blue murder ballad from the murderers perspective. Night Prowler is much the same. I wish they could have just stuck true and said yes it is a murder ballad, but that has no bearing on what a psycho like Ramirez does because there are many many murder ballads and other media, and it's a reflection of darkness in society bot a cause if it.

[@sparrowprince3432]

lmao he’s not fooling anybody

[@JohnBGood-ry9wj]

@Ashley Smiths do you like salad 🥗?

[@rcknrol7258]

Hmmm maybe Angus should read the lyrics " you wont feel steel till its hanging out your back " ....doesnt sound like just a panty collector to me.

[@FrancisTheBerd]

0:02 what the hell is Brian singing!?

[@frankusyoung4198]

Aye aye oh shake it to the floor xD

[@FrancisTheBerd]

@@frankusyoung4198 Oh It was so high pitched that I couldn't recognize XD

[@NoCaping]

RIP Richard you and bon looked just alike and i believe bon had a very evil side especially when he wrote night prowler which was Richards favorite song

[@79tazman]

Richard Ramirez? Bon Scott don't look anything like that lowlife scumbag Ramirez and Richard is not RIP he is burning in hell like he should be

[@74red77]

@@79tazman Richard Ramirez is a legend. Amongst the GOAT. Don't diss what you can't do.

[@almagest77707]

Rip RIchard? You need help, you sick bastard

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

Get your glasses fixed!

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

There's no rest for the wicked, ugly -ass Ramirez. Burning with his master 👿🤘🔥🔥🔥over & over.

[@adelerene8725]

Ramirez hunted within two miles of one of my childhood homes.