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Modèle:Infobox Song Modèle:Infobox Song Modèle:Otheruses4 "Big Balls" is a hit song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the sixth track of their Australian album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, released in September 1976 (see 1976 in music), and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott.

"Big Balls" is the third track on the international version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, released in November 1976. The international version was not released in the United States until April 1981 (see 1981 in music).

Cover versions of this song have been used as the theme music for professional wrestler Balls Mahoney. For example, Jonathan Wilson's cover of the song was a track in the compilation album of songs related to Extreme Championship Wrestling, ECW: Extreme Music (en). Mahoney used the original (AC/DC version of the) song as his theme music during his debut run in ECW.

In Stephen King's 2013 novel Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining, Big Balls is a favorite song of 12-year-old Bradley Trevor and his best friend, Al.

The personnel involved in making the song were Bon Scott (lead vocals), Angus Young (lead guitar), Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar), Mark Evans (bass), and Phil Rudd (drums). The producers were Harry Vanda and George Young.

Lyrics

The song's narrator introduces himself as "God's gift to ballroom notoriety" and devotes the rest of the piece to bragging about the spectacular galas he throws, which have attracted a large number of guests (including many repeat comers) and become the talk of the town, cementing his status in upper class high society. Indeed, in the chorus, he notes that his events are so successful as to put all other hosts to shame, inasmuch as "he's got big balls / And she's got big balls / But we've got the biggest balls of them all."

His lyrics brim with enthusiasm about his favorite types of balls (Some balls are held for charity / And some for fancy dress / But when they're held for pleasure / They're the balls that I like best); the refreshments offered to the guests (viz., seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish); the fun that they all have; and the social status that people derive from being invited ("If your name is on the guest list / No one can take you higher / Everybody says I've got / Great balls of fire").

Some have interpreted the song as a thinly-veiled double entendre.