Brian Johnson published his first book back in 2011, but fans know that the car-focused “Rockers and Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir” in 2011 only told part of the story.

Brian Johnson of AC/DC performs with the Foo Fighters at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” in Inglewood, California, in 2021.

Johnson says he had other Kleenex-dampening moments throughout his writing, which he did primarily by longhand. The 373-page The Lives of Brian, which publishes Oct. 25, is his second book and the ...