Music Video
There are two versions to the music video. The first version, directed by Eric Dionysius and Eric Mistler, is similar to the other Back in Black videos ("Back in Black", "Hells Bells", "What Do You Do For Money Honey", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", and "Let Me Put My Love Into You") and is available on the special Back in Black, The Videos which could be obtained by purchasing a recent Back in Black album. It is also available in the Backtracks box set.
In the second version, directed by David Mallet and released six years after the song's original release, Angus and Malcolm Young follow Brian around the town of Huddersfield, with Angus in his signature schoolboy outfit. This version of the video for "You Shook Me All Night Long" is perhaps one of the most controversial film clips AC/DC ever released. The video clip casts the English glamour model Corinne Russell, a former Hill's Angel and Page 3 Girl, along with other leather clad women with zips at the groin region of their suits who are pedaling bicycle like machines in the background; however, a softer, censored alternative version exists without these shots.
It was revealed on the VH1 series Pop-Up Video that during the shot with the mechanical bull, the woman playing Brian's lover accidentally jabbed herself with her spur twice. The roadie who came to her aid married her a year later; Angus gave them a mechanical bull for a wedding present as a joke. Also according to Pop-Up Video, when asked about the meaning of the video, the band said that its goal was to "be as politically incorrect as possible." It should be noted that the original 1980 video features drummer Phil Rudd while the 1986 video features drummer Simon Wright who replaced Rudd in 1983. Rudd, however, would return to AC/DC in 1994.
"You Shook Me All Night Long" was also the second song to be played by AC/DC on Saturday Night Live in 2000, following their performance of "Stiff Upper Lip."
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