During an appearance to promote his memoir, Surrender, Bono explains why Highway to Hell by AC/DC is actually a song about Jesus.
Highway to hell.” “Because Jesus would want to be there, too, with his friends, and will always go the distance, will always find you where you are. At this point he asked Meacham if he could use his phone to look up the lyrics to “Highway to Hell.” “Wouldn’t you like to hear the lyrics of AC/DC?” he asked the large crowd seated throughout the neo-Gothic church. “I just want to say that’s the Jesus I believe in,” he said. Highway to hell. After advising Meacham about which Google search terms to use — “AC/DC, ‘Highway to Hell,’ lyric” — Bono admitted he only recently discovered the power of this heavy-metal classic while attending a birthday party where someone recited its words.