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"Big Gun" is a song by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released as a single in May 1993, by Atco Records, from the soundtrack to the Arnold Schwarzenegger helmed action movie Last Action Hero. The song was later released on the box set Backtracks in November 2009.
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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 | Rick Rubin | |||
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| "Big Gun" on YouTube | ||||
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.
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big gun (plural big guns)
- (military) A large artillery gun or one of the largest-caliber naval guns (as on a battleship).
- Synonym: great gun
- (idiomatic, by extension, chiefly in the plural) A person, group, thing, or course of action that is powerful, influential, or particularly effective.
- Synonyms: big shot, bigwig; see also Thesaurus:important person
- 1957 Aug. 28, Ed Wilks, "Sports" (Headline), Park City News (USA), p. 15 (retrieved 20 Aug. 2011):
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