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Composers and musicians can well imagine certain ways in which their new songs might be used: peak party, first day of summer, first dance at a wedding, last call at a dive bar. Few, however, could predict the weird and wonderful ways their more popular tracks might be used in the future. An example?

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We can look to ‘Thunderstruck,’ AC/DC’s 1990 mega-hit from ‘The Razor’s Edge’ album, recorded here in Vancouver at Little Mountain Studio.

One of the highest-selling singles of all time, Thunderstruck starts with Angus Young’s undeniable guitar riff:

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The Australian band could certainly have imagined Thunderstruck being paired with an iconic superhero like Iron Man.

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But AC/DC would have had to be seriously prescient to imagine Thunderstruck being used as:

i. The signature entrance song for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders since 2010.

ii. In 2016, as a perfect vibrational source to help chemotherapy-stuffed, porous silicon micro-particles bounce up and down to allow them a larger surface area to be coated by a treatment-enhancing plasma polymer.

iii. And this summer of 2025, an ideally raucous song to be blasted from drones to scare no-longer endangered grey wolves from their cattle prey.

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‘Broke all the rules, played all the fools…’

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