Big Gun
"Big Gun" is a song by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released as a single in May 1993 by Atco Records from the soundtrack to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Last Action Hero, as well as during reruns of The Savage Nation talk show as bumper music. It was later released on the 2009 box set Backtracks. It became the band's first No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in 1993. The accompanying music video was directed by David Mallet. At the APRA Music Awards of 1995, the song won Most Performed Australian Work Overseas. AC/DC has played the song live only once during 1996 rehearsals but never at an official show.
| "Big Gun" | ||||
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| Single by AC/DC | ||||
| from the album Last Action Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture | ||||
| B-side | "Back in Black" (live) | |||
| Released | 24 May 1993 | |||
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| Length | 4:24 | |||
| Label | ATCO | |||
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| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||
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| "Big Gun" on YouTube | ||||
As well as its worldwide release on the Last Action Hero soundtrack, the song was on iTunes with the rest of the soundtrack, making it for a time the only song by AC/DC on iTunes. It was later removed from iTunes along with "Two Steps Behind" by Def Leppard. The song returned to iTunes along with AC/DC's entire catalogue, although it still is not available to purchase as a track on the Last Action Hero soundtrack. Instead it can be purchased as a song from AC/DC's 2009 rarities boxset, Backtracks.