Bagpipers Rock Melbourne in Record-Breaking Tribute

Hundreds of Australian bagpipers joined forces in Melbourne to play AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll),” setting a new record for the world’s largest bagpipe ensemble.

“The pipes are a dying art, and we wanted to bring them back to life,” said Les Kenfield, one of the original pipers from AC/DC’s 1975 music video, who joined the event nearly 50 years later.

A total of 374 pipers gathered in Federation Square — the same street where the band once filmed the song’s iconic truck performance — surpassing the previous record of 333 set in Bulgaria in 2012. The record-breaking moment came just days before AC/DC’s first concert in Australia in ten years, when their thunderous Melbourne show was reportedly powerful enough to register on earthquake sensors two miles away.