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- With more than 50 million units shifted, it is the biggest selling rock album of all time. For many, it is also the greatest hard rock record ever made. It was the album that turned AC/DC into superstars, and it has been inspiration to countless rock bands for 40 years, from Def Leppard to Metallica, Guns N’ Roses to The Darkness.
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Jul 23, 2020 · Back In Black was released on July 21st, 1980 - five months and one day after Bon Scott had died. Rolling Stone writer David Fricke declared the album a masterpiece and a milestone in rock. “Back in Black is not only the best of AC/DC’s six American albums,” Fricke wrote.
Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC, released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. It was the band's first album to feature Brian Johnson as lead singer, following the death of Bon Scott, their previous vocalist.
- April–May 1980
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- 25 July 1980
- "Hells Bells" The bell that kicks off Back in Black's opening track didn't come from a sound effects disc, but was created specifically for AC/DC by John Taylor Bellfounders in Loughborough, England, to take on tour.
- "Shoot to Thrill" For all of the sexual leanings in "Shoot to Thrill," Johnson revealed in The Story of Back in Black documentary series that the song was inspired more by a phenomenon sweeping his home country at the time: What I was thinking of at the time in England, it was more housewives on Valium, because the National Health System was overloaded with women who were just depressed, despondent and all that.
- "What Do You Do for Money Honey" According AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll by Murray Engleheart with Arnaud Durieux, "What Do You Do for Money Honey" was a title that the Youngs' older brother, George Young, in his head since the Powerage sessions, which he co-produced.
- "Givin' the Dog a Bone" Johnson's penchant for double-entendre, something he shared with Scott, was evident from his second audition with AC/DC. Engleheart and Durieux write that the singer came up with some of the lyrics to "Givin' the Dog a Bone" on the spot after hearing the riff.
May 3, 2022 · It’s “Back in Black” by rock legends AC/DC. Now, over four decades after its initial release, we’re examining the circumstances that built this song. Here we’ll dive into the backstory,...
Jul 25, 2021 · By Paul Elliott. ( Classic Rock ) last updated 25 July 2021. How a washed-up rock star helped AC/DC overcome Bon Scott’s death and make their masterpiece. AC\/DC onstage in 1980(Image credit: Getty Images) It was in March 1980 that Brian Johnson got the phone call that would change his life.
Jun 16, 2019 · Today, we revisit the classic rock staple from a band who rebounded from tragedy to record one of the biggest albums ever made.
Aug 21, 2017 · The biggest-selling album of AC/DC’s career, and the second-biggest-selling ever (after Michael Jackson’s Thriller) Back In Black is the mother of all comeback records and arguably the greatest hard rock album of all time. The way the band tell it, it was the worst of times and it was the best of times.
