Back in Black - AC/DC — Listen and discover music at Last.fm Back in Black ac/dc Back in Black is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the seventh Australian and sixth internationally released studio album by the band. Released on 25 July 1980, Back in Black was the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, who died on 19 February at the age of 33, and was dedicated to him. The band considered disbanding following his death, but they ultimately decided to continue, with encouragement from Scott's… read more Don't want to see ads? Subscribe now Tracklist Back In Black - AC/DC (1980) - YouTube Back In Black - AC/DC (1980) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Uploaded on Nov 4, 2010 "Back In Black" was a song by AC/DC, appearing as the first track on side two of their 1980 album, "Back In Black". Known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC's tribute to their former singer Bon Scott. It peaked in the U.S. at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981 and was No. 51 on Billboard's Top Tracks chart, which debuted in March 1981. The song was ranked No. 4 by VH1 on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs, and in 2009, it was named the second greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. It was also ranked No. 187 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The same magazine has also ranked "Back In Black" number 29 on The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

Released on 25 July 1980, "Back In Black" was the seventh AC/DC album and the first recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, who died on 19 February 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption at the age of 33, and was dedicated to him. The band considered disbanding following Scott's death, but they ultimately decided to continue and shortly thereafter hired Brian Johnson as their new lead singer and lyricist. Producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, who had previously worked with AC/DC on "Highway To Hell", was again brought in to produce. The recordings were made at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, and Electric Lady Studios in New York, where the album was also mixed. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second-highest selling album of all time behind "Thriller" by Michael Jackson., and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album, as well as the best-selling album ever released by a band. AC/DC are an Australian rock group, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered a pioneer of heavy metal, they have always classified their music as rock and roll. To date they are one of the highest grossing bands of all time. As of 2010, AC/DC have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, including 71 million albums in the United States. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and were named the seventh Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC were ranked number 72 in the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. This channel is dedicated to the classic rock hits that have become part of the history of our culture. The incredible AOR tracks that define music from the late 60s, the 70s and the early 80s . . . Classic Rock is here! Check out my newer music videos and other fun stuff at: What does Back in Black mean?

Definitions for Back in Black This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Back in Black Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Back in Black Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. Produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the album was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. By the late 1970s, AC/DC began to achieve significant popularity outside their native Australia, with high-energy live performances and a string of successful albums. In 1979, they paired with producer Lange and recorded their international breakthrough, Highway to Hell. Shortly before the recording of their follow-up, lead vocalist Bon Scott died after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group continued on with ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson. Back in Black was recorded over seven weeks in the Bahamas in spring 1980. The area was hit by tropical storms at the time, making the sessions difficult at times. Johnson penned the album's lyrics and melodies, while guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young composed the music.

Its musical content consists of hard rock-styled numbers with lyrics relating to sex, alcohol, partying and rock and roll. Lange demanded perfection in the band's recordings, particularly on Johnson's vocals. Numerology The numerical value of Back in Black in Chaldean Numerology is: 7 Pythagorean Numerology AC/DC’s Back in Black: 35 Album Facts - VH1 vh1 AC/DC’s Back in Black: 35 Album Facts As history’s #1 hard rock album turns 35, get 35 inside stories. by Mike McPadden 7/25/2015 AC/DC unleashed Back in Black on July 25, 1980 and, to paraphrase one of the album’s most famous lines, on very first impact, “the walls started shaking, the earth was quaking.” Over the course of the next three-and-a-half decades, Back in Black’s complete shock-and-awe rock-and-roll takeover of human consciousness has never for a moment let up. And that’s just as it should be.

So on the occasion of Back in Black’s 35th anniversary, with the Australian hellraisers out on a world tour in support of their fifteenth international blockbuster album Rock or Bust, here’s a round-up of 35 facts regarding rock’s mightiest-ever thunder from Down Under. 1. Back in Black is the seventh studio album by AC/DC, and the group’s first with singer Brian Johnson . 2. However explosively great the results of going with a new vocalist may have been artistically and financially, the reason was in no way a happen one: AC/DC’s prior singer—the one-of-a-kind rock-and-roll madman Bon Scott —died on February 19, 1980. Following a night of otherwise typical alcohol-fueled carrying on, Scott succumbed to what is officially described as “death by misadventure.” 3. Knowing that Scott would have demanded that the band carry on, the group did just that, turning Back in Black into a tribute to their fallen frontman. 4. An international hit right away, Back in Black shot to #1 in Australia, England, France, and Canada. 5.

In the U.S., Back in Black peaked at #4 on the U.S. Billboard Album chart. However, its sales proved so consistently strong that Atlantic Records issued the group’s 1976 album Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap stateside. Atlantic had originally passed on handling Dirty Deeds. In May 1981, Dirty Deeds beat out Back in Black on the Billboard chart by landing at #3. 6. To date, Back in Black has sold in excess of 40 million copies. It is the single biggest hard rock album ever released. 7. Worldwide, Back in Black ranks #2 in sales only behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller. 8. In the U.S., Back in Black is the sixth biggest seller of all time, behind Thriller; Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles; Led Zeppelin IV; The Wall by Pink Floyd, and Greatest Hits by Billy Joel. 9. AC/DC’s final record with Bon Scott, 1979’s Highway to Hell , had been their most popular to date. For for Back in Black, then, the group decided to stick with Highway producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange . 10.

Mutt Lange ’s intricate, high-tech, meticulous approach to recording and production proved to be a perfect paradoxical blend with AC/DC’s down-and-dirty, loud-and-sloppy inherent style. As a result, the group trusted him. Thus, AC/DC listened when Lange suggested they try out vocalist Brian Johnson, the gravel-throated frontman of a hard rock squad known as Geordie . 11. Brian Johnson bowled over AC/DC with his voice that, while shockingly powerful and gritty in its own right, was not immediately reminiscent of Bon Scott. They also loved that, like Scott, Johnson learned to sing as a result of his passion for classic blues and soul. 12. Bon Scott had written numerous songs for AC/DC’s follow-up to Highway to Hell, but the band felt ghoulish about using and profiting from the late singer’s work. Instead, Brian Johnson penned the album’s lyrics, while the music came from lead guitarist Angus Young his rhythm guitarist brother, Malcolm Young 13. AC/DC recorded Back in Black at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas over seven weeks from April to May 1980. They hit the island just in time for tropical storm season.

As Brian Johnson would later say about the album itself, “It was a force of nature, that thing. It really was.” 14. At one point, a crab wandered into the studio’s drum booth from the beach , momentarily disrupting recording and busting up everyone involved. “It was cracking its claws like castanets!,” Brian Johnson remembers. Could that have been the perpetual prankster spirit of Bon Scott? 15. The crab wasn’t the only distraction. “It was hardly any kind of studio,” Malcolm Young once said . “We were in these little concrete cells… you had a bed and a chair. And this big old black lady ran the whole place. Oh, she was fearsome. She ruled that place with a rod of iron. We had to lock the doors at night because she’d warned us about these Haitians who’d come down at night and rob the place. So she bought us all these six-foot fishing spears to keep at the f—ing door! It was a bit of a stretch from Newcastle, I can tell you.” 16.

Regarding the opening riff on the title track—indisputably one of the most iconic guitar crunches in all of rock— Angus Young recalls , “Malcolm had that riff for about three weeks. He came in one night and said, ‘You got your cassette here? Can I put this down? It’s been driving me mad. I won’t be getting any sleep until I put it on cassette.’ He sat down and played it all. The funniest thing is he said to me, ‘What do you think? I don’t know if it’s crap or not.’” 17. For the opening moments of “Hells Bells” (and the album itself), attempts to record the Denison Bell at England’s Carillon Tower and War Museum proved fruitless due to natural bird sounds. Instead, Mutt Lange had a custom 2.000-pound brass bell created by a foundry that would remain perfectly in tune. Those flawless rings were eventually captured at Ronnie Lane’s Mobile Studio in England. 18. Lange’s notorious perfectionism landed with particular intensity on Brian Johnson’s vocals.

The frontman refers to that time as a “blur” and adds, “Physically standing there and singing, I don’t remember, because it was one [take] after the other, day after day.” 19. Lange and the group mixed AC/DC at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Among the other classics to have emerged from that legendary facility are Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin, Dressed to Kill and Destroyer by Kiss, and Young Americans by David Bowie. 20. AC/DC toured the world in support of Back in Black. Their first show with Brian Johnson took place on July 1, 1980 in Namur, Belgium. 21. The group remembers some hostility initially directed toward Brian Johnson in the form of jeers and shots of “Where’s Bon?” By the end of show, though, Johnson and the band consistently won over even the most severe doubters. 22. For those who understandably still ached for Bon Scott action, AC/DC released their concert movie, Let There Be Rock , to theaters on September 18, 1980.

The film is a triumphant showcase for Scott, shot in Paris on December 9, 1979. It’s tough to imagine that the firebrand frontman so very much alive on screen in Let There Be Rock would be dead just a few months later. 23. Rumors persist that some theaters showing Let There Be Rock were equipped with stacks of Marshall Amps to run the movie’s soundtrack through. Testimonies exist, but no hard evidence has yet turned up. 23. With Back in Black dominating not just heavy metal and hard rock but also mainstream radio across the year following its release, AC/DC headlined the second-ever Monsters of Rock festival on August 22, 1981. 24. AC/DC would again headline Monsters of Rock in 1984 and 1991. 25. Back in Black begat four singles. In order of release, they were “You Shook Me All Night Long,” “Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution,” “Hells Bells,” and “Back in Black.” 26. An unknown number of “You Shook Me All Night Long” singles that were pressed incorrectly made it to the public.

The record instead plays the song “Shake a Leg.” Copies of those singles are among the very most sought-after AC/DC collector’s items. 27. Two music videos for “You Shook Me All Night Long” exist. One, released in 1980, showcases the band playing live . The second was created in 1986 for Who Made Who, AC/DC’s combination greatest-hits and soundtrack album for the Stephen King cult movie, Maximum Overdrive . The Who Made Who video is a major comedic production starring Johnson and buxom British Page 3 model and Benny Hill Show starlet, Corinne Russell . 28. In March 2014, Brian Johnson joined Billy Joel onstage at one of the Piano Man’s monthly Madison Square Garden concerts. Together, they performed “You Shook Me All Night Long.” 29. Unlikely cover versions of “You Shook Me All Night Long” have been performed by Shania Twain (ex-wife of Mutt Lange), Mumford and Sons , and Big and Rich . Céline Dion sang it as a duet with Anastascia on the TV special, VH1 Divas Las Vegas . 30.

From 1998 to 2010, the San Diego Padres used “Hells Bells” to introduce relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman . From there, MLB teams utilized metal anthems to bring on closers, most notably in the case of “Enter Sandman” and the New York Yankees’ Mariano Rivera . 31. At the start of the third quarter at University of North Carolina football games, the Tar Heels take the field to “Hells Bells.” 32. AC/DC is especially proud of how AC/DC figured into the rescue mission of captive Black Hawk Down pilot Michael Durant from Somalia in 1993. “He was shoved in prison,” Brian Johnson says . “His back was broken. They were kicking him, shooting bullets into him and he was terrified. His pals knew that AC/DC was his favorite band so they hooked up a speaker to the skid of one of the Black Hawks and they were playing ‘Hells Bells’ over the rooftops. He took his shirt off and—because his legs were broken—he crawled up to the windows and waved his shirt. That’s how they got him out. Ain’t that amazing?!” 33.

“Shoot to Thrill” is one of the most widely used rock songs in movies, TV, and video games. Among the productions that have employed the song are Iron Man 2, Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, The Dukes of Hazzard, xXx: State of the Union, Red 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. 34. In 2004, death metal marauders Six Feet Under released a track-by-track cover of the Back in Black album under the puckish title Graveyard Classics 2 . 35. Malcolm Young once beautifully summed up Back in Black by stating : “With Bon’s death we wanted to put everything down right, we were really focused on that album and it turned out to be timeless and I think it’ll stay that way. I think maybe AC/DC had come to a peak at that point.” The Year in Music - 1980 The Year in Music - 1980 Talking Heads on the cover of Rolling Stone; Olivia Newton-John; Elvis Costello & the Attractions Disco was dead, and the music industry floundered in 1980 looking for something to fill the void.

Sales had been declining for years and 1980 continued that trend, with 34 million fewer units sold than in the year before. Major record labels were hurting; they responded by laying off employees --as many as 2,500 people in the industry lost their jobs. If any kind of music dominated this year it was pop. The original rock'n'roll crowd that had been teenagers in the Sixties were all grown up now, and the record companies tried to appeal to them with a safe, homogenized product. Peter Frampton was sounding more and more like Barry Manilow these days, while it became less easy to distinguish Fleetwood Mac from The Captain & Tennille. For those with vision, there was a new sound on the horizon, slowly making headway -- British New Wave, best represented by Talking Heads (Remain In Light) and The Pretenders (Pretenders). But the record labels were not believers just yet, and their conservative approach left many innovative New Wave bands languishing for lack of support.

The most creative music was coming off the streets, and a handful of its purveyors -- The Police,The Clash, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -- were pointing the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. Eventually the industry would see that light. But, in the meantime, "easy listening" pop briefly reigned. "The commercial cotton candy of the pop chart," lamented music critic Michael Gross, "was all too sweet for words." Just look at some of the hit singles of the year: "Magic," Olivia Newton-John; "Sailing," Christopher Cross; "Shining Star," The Manhattans; "All Out Of Love," Air Supply; "Lady," Kenny Rogers; "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," Hall and Oates; "I Can't Tell You Why," The Eagles; "Working My Way Back To You," The Spinners -- the list goes on and on. (Perhaps the syrupy pop-rock of Air Supply best exemplified the formula for chart success in 1980.) Some of this was quite good, and without it elevator music would not be what it is today.

But the music fan could not live long on white bread alone. Fortunately, some red meat was available. New artists were in the wings, artists who would blend pop and reggae and metal and punk and R&B and lay it over a big beat borrowed from disco and funk and thereby create a new sound for the Eighties. Madonna, U2, Prince & The Revolution, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Peter Gabriel, John Cougar Mellencamp and The Eurythmics were in the on-deck circle. Blondie's "Call Me" and The Knack's "My Sharona" were already dance faves in the teen clubs -- a preview of the music that Eighties youth -- a group largely dismissed by music execs this year -- would take to heart. And "Brass In Pocket" by The Pretenders was the first legitimate New Wave Top 20 hit in the U.S. The signs were everywhere. Country music sales had been in decline, but were revived in 1980 thanks in no small measure to the popularity of the film Urban Cowboy. The so-called "Nashville Sound" -- pop-country tunes with lush arrangements that incorporated strings and synthesizers -- was in vogue.

The leading purveyors of this sound included Kenny Rogers, a pop singer (formerly with First Edition) turned country crooner. This was a very good year for Rogers, whose 1979 album Kenny was certified platinum and the single "Coward Of The County" was a transatlantic chart-topper. Rogers scored again this year with "Lady," a ballad penned by Lionel Richie that would spend six weeks at US#1 while also topping the R&B, C&W and Adult Contemporary charts. Rogers walked away with an armload of Grammy and American Music Awards in 1980. Other top country artists: Eddie Rabbitt ("Drivin' My Life Away"), Johnny Lee ("Lookin' For Love") and Dolly Parton ("9 To 5"). Progressive country was expiring, and even "outlaws" Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson had been appropriated by the Nashville establishment. For several years to come the rhinestone crowd would dominate country sound, but soon there would be a move afoot to bring country music back to its roots.

With the arrival of the video disc, industry prognosticators didn't need to be rocket scientists to predict that the video market was going to be one of the major developments of the Eighties. Gary Numan paved the way with the first rock video cassette in April 1980, beating out Blondie for that honor by only a matter of weeks. Digital recording became a viable alternative to analog recording with all its deficiencies inherent in recording sound on a tape coated with magnetic oxide. The digital recorder decoded magnetic pulses -- an electronic processing of information -- that solved the problem of imperfections in reproduced sound. In April, The Beat's "Mirror In The Bathroom" became the first British single to have been digitally recorded. Some of the year's most notable events In December, as the single "(Just Like) Starting Over" reached the Top 5 and his comeback album Double Fantasy climbed the charts, John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Though it flopped at the box office, Olivia Newton-John's musical fantasy flick Xanadu produced a soundtrack album that sold two million units and had three Top 20 singles. Paul McCartney spent ten days in a Tokyo jail after a small quantity of marijuana was found in his baggage.

The "Wings" Tour was cancelled. In January Pink Floyd's The Wall would reach the #1 spot on the US album chart -- and stay there through April. The band's Dark Side Of The Moon was still on Billboard's album chart after 303 weeks, making it the longest charting pop album in history, unseating Carole King's Tapestry. Critics and audiences alike were turned off by Bob Dylan's born-again antics in concert and on his new album, appropriately entitled Saved. A Texas truck driver took hostages in the New York offices of Elektra/Asylum Records; his terms for their release -- that Jackson Browne or The Eagles finance his trucking operation. Bon Scott, notorious lead singer for the Australian heavy metal band AC/DC, died of alcohol poisoning. Other deaths: Ian Curtis, lead singer with Joy Division (suicide); Tommy Caldwell, bass player for The Marshall Tucker Band (car wreck); Malcolm Owen, lead singer for The Ruts (drug-related); Jacob Miller of Inner Circle (car wreck); and Professor Longhair, New Orleans piano player and R&B legend, dead at 61.

Queen's Magic Years videocassette cover; Billy Joel's Glass Houses album cover; Deborah Harry of Blondie Top Ten Singles 1. "Rock With You" - Michael Jackson 2. "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes 3. "Do That To Me One More Time" - Captain & Tennille 4. "Send One Your Love" - Stevie Wonder 5. "Coward Of The County" - Kenny Rogers 6. "We Don't Talk Anymore" - Cliff Richard 7. "Please Don't Go" - KC & The Sunshine Band 8. "Cruisin'" - Smokey Robinson 9. "Ladies Night" - Kool & The Gang 10. "The Long Run" - Eagles February 1. "Do That To Me One More Time" - Captain & Tennille 2. "Rock With You" - Michael Jackson 3. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen 4. "Cruisin'" - Smokey Robinson 5. "Coward Of The County" - Kenny Rogers 6. "Yes, I'm Ready" - Teri DeSario with K.C. 7. "Sara" - Fleetwood Mac 9.

"On The Radio" - Donna Summer 10. "This Is It," - Kenny Loggins March 1. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen 2. "Another Brick In The Wall" - Pink Floyd 3. "Desire" - Andy Gibb 5. "Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, Girl" - Spinners 6. "On The Radio" - Spinners 7. "Yes I'm Ready" - Teri DeSario with K.C. 8. "Him" - Rupert Holmes 9. "The Second Time Around" - Shalamar 10. "Too Hot" - Kool & The Gang April 2. "Another Brick In The Wall" - Pink Floyd 3. "Ride Like The Wind" - Christopher Cross 4. "Special Lady" - Ray, Goodman & Brown 5. "Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, Girl" - Spinners 6. "With You I'm Born Again" - Billy Preston & Syreeta 7. "Too Hot" - Kool & The Gang 8. "I Can't Tell You Why" - Eagles 9.

"Fire Lake" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 10. "Lost In Love" - Air Supply May 2. "Lost In Love" - Air Supply 3. "Sexy Eyes" - Dr. Hook 4. "Ride Like The Wind" - Christopher Cross 5. "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes 6. "Funkytown" - Lipps Inc. 7. "Biggest Part Of Me" - Ambrosia 8. "Hurt So Bad" - Linda Ronstadt 9. "With You I'm Born Again" - Billy Preston & Syreeta 10. "Another Brick In The Wall" - Pink Floyd June 2. "Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)" - Paul McCartney 3. "The Rose" - Bette Midler 4. "Biggest Part Of Me" - Ambrosia 5. "Against The Wind" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 6. "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" - Billy Joel 7. "Little Jeannie" - Elton John 8. "Call Me" - Blondie 9.

"Steal Away" - Robbie Dupree 10. "Cars" - Gary Numan 1. "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" - Billy Joel 2. "Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)" - Paul McCartney 3. "Little Jeannie" - Elton John 4. "Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time" - Spinners 5. "The Rose" - Bette Midler 6. "Steal Away" - Robbie Dupree 7. "Magic" - Olivia Newton-John 9. "Let Me Love You Tonight" - Pure Prairie League 10. "Tired Of Toein' The Line" - Rocky Burnette August 3. "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" - S.O.S. Band 4. "Emotional Rescue" - Rolling Stones 5. "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" - Billy Joel 6. "Upside Down" - Diana Ross 7. "Shining Star" - Manhattans 8. "More Love" - Kim Carnes 9. "Little Jeannie" - Elton John 10. "Fame" - Irene Cara 1.

"Upside Down" - Diana Ross 2. "All Out Of Love" - Air Supply 3. "Fame" - Irene Cara 4. "Give Me The Night" - George Benson 5. "Lookin' For Love" - Johnny Lee 6. "Late In The Evening" - Paul Simon 7. "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen 8. "Emotional Rescue" - Rolling Stones 9. "Drivin' My Life Away" - Eddie Rabbitt 10. "Sailing" - Christopher Cross 1. "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen 2. "Woman In Love" - Barbra Streisand 3. "Upside Down" - Diana Ross 4. "All Out Of Love" - Air Supply 5. "Real Love" - Doobie Brothers 6. "I'm Alright" - Kenny Loggins 7. "Drivin' My Life Away" - Eddie Rabbitt 8. "He's So Shy" - Pointer Sisters 9. "Late In The Evening" - Paul Simon 10. "Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra November 1.

"Woman In Love" - Barbra Streisand 2. "Lady" - Kenny Rogers 3. "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen 4. "The Wanderer" - Donna Summer 5. "I'm Comin' Out" - Diana Ross 6. "Master Blaster (Jammin') - Stevie Wonder 7. "Never Knew Love Like This Before" - Stephanie Mills 8. "He's So Shy" - Pointer Sisters 9. Dreaming" -Cliff Richard 10. "More Than I Can Say" - Leo Sayer December 2. "More Than I Can Say" - Leo Sayer 3. "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon 4. "Love On The Rocks" - Neil Diamond 5. "Hungry Heart" - Bruce Springsteen 6. "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen 7. "Master Blaster (Jammin')" - Stevie Wonder 8. "Guilty" - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb 9. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" - Pat Benatar 10.

"Every Woman In The World" - Air Supply Albums of the Year 36 Years Ago: AC/DC Overcome Tragedy With 'Back in Black' REDDIT Atlantic Records When a popular band loses its singer, it rarely bounces back to reach the level of success it had prior to the lineup shift. The most remarkable exception to this rule is Australian powerhouse AC/DC , which released the legendary album Back in Black on July 25, 1980. The album was dedicated to the band’s late vocalist Bon Scott , who died on February 19, 1980, after a night of heavy drinking. Though they were devastated by the death of their friend and briefly considered breaking up, AC/DC decided to carry on with a new singer. Two days after Scott’s funeral, guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young continued working on new riffs. Angus has said that getting right back to work distracted them from the grief. Soon after, they auditioned singers, including Gary Pickford Hopkins, Easybeats vocalist Stevie Wright and Fat Lip’s Allan Fryer.

Ironically, when Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson (whom Mutt Lange referred to the band) was invited to try out, he wasn’t immediately interested. “Someone phoned up and asked me to join this thing, and I just said, ‘Nah, I’ve been bitten before,’” Johnson told me in 2011. “I had three Top 10 hits with Geordie. And after three years we were as broke as when we started. Those were the days of the great rip off. I was with a company called Red Bus Records, whose motto was, ‘You make the music and we’ll make the money.’ But it was written in Latin so we couldn’t understand it. I just said, ‘I’m not gonna do this again. I was away from home all the time, missed my daughters growing up. But then I got curious and thought, ‘Well, what’s the harm in trying out?’ So I went down, sang with the boys and….

Boing!” While most other singers auditioned with Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water,” Johnson tried out with Tina Turner’s “Nutbush City Limits,” which earned the immediate approval and respect from the band, who were tired of playing “Smoke on the Water” and pleased Johnson listened to different styles of music. On April 8, 1980, following two auditions, Johnson agreed to sign a six-month contract with AC/DC, which would be evaluated after it expired. If at any point during the six months either the band or Johnson decided the pairing wasn’t working out, they could sever the deal. Of course, that was never an issue. Johnson fit AC/DC like a rubber glove. The band dove right into recording Back in Black with Johnson and Lange at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. For Johnson, who was used to working in a less chaotic manner, it was a trial by fire. The Youngs wrote much of the music in the studio while Johnson worked on the lyrics. AC/DC plowed through six songs, including the title track, which was a triumphant comeback song with slightly sinister lyrics.

But when he was asked to write lyrics to a song they wanted to call “Hells Bells,” Johnson hit a wall – until he received some unholy intervention. “Just then there was the mother of all thunderstorms,” Johnson told Louder Than Hell: the Definitive Oral History of Metal. “I said, ‘Jesus, the noise of the thunder is coming in. Mutt said, ‘There you go, that’s a start, Brian, the rolling thunder.” And I went, “It’s f–king pouring rain, look at the wind, it’s comin’ on like a hurricane. And look at that lightning flashing across the sky!” Honestly, I was like a reporter. There as an alarm bell ringing, so I went, “Got my bell I’m gonna take you to hell. Gonna get ya, Satan get ya! Hells bells.’ That was it. It was ten minutes and the song was done.” Other numbers, including “Shoot to Thrill” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” came in just a few hours.

Without thunderstorms to rely on, Johnson had to use his wits and imagination to help create classics like “Givin’ the Dog a Bone,” “Have a Drink on Me” and “Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution.” Like Scott, Johnson enjoyed writing lyrics about partying and double-entendres about sex. And he did so at an astonishing pace. “There was hardly time to think,” Johnson told me. “I’d just go with one idea after another, and any time I got stuck the guys were really patient and supportive. I’d say, ‘No, I just can’t think of anything else. I can’t do it.’ And they’d go, ‘Sure, you can. You’re doing great. Just get some tea then keep going.’ And somehow that always worked.” Seven weeks after AC/DC started recording Back in Black with Lange, the album was done. “We just started writing and everything poured out of us,” Young said. “I don’t even remember specifics for a lot of the songs. We had almost nothing in front of us one day, and then the next there they were with a finished record.” AC/DC released Back in Black with all-black cover art in tribute to Scott.

At first, the record company was resistant, but agreed to the design providing the band outline its name in gray. The album was an immediate success, hitting No. 1 in Australia, the UK and France and reaching No. 4 in the United States. It was an album that only improved with repeat listens, and years after its release it was still selling strong. The first U.S. single “You Shook Me All Night Long” peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the title track reached No. 37, yet the album remained on the Billboard chart for 131 weeks. While Johnson’s vocals were more rooted in soul and blues than Scott’s had been, he had a similar vocal range, and was able to perform all of the band’s best Scott material in concert, staying true to the originals, while augmenting them with his own voice. “It has been really great because we didn’t have to drop any of them classics,” Johnson says. “We can still do ‘Highway to Hell,’ ‘Whole Lotta Rosie,’ ‘For Those About to Rock’ – any of those great tunes plus all of our new stuff.

So we really have a lot of material to pull from every time we play.” And Back in Black’s usefulness extended beyond its stellar music. Motörhead reportedly used the record to tune their sound system, and because of its pristine production, some studios in Nashville have used it to test the acoustic of a room. In addition, “You Shook Me All Night Long” was one of the songs the U.S. military blasted at the Papal Nunciatura in Panama City on Christmas Day 1989 to convince dictator general Manuel Noriega to surrender. One more not-so-minor thing to add: Back in Black is one of the biggest selling albums of all time. To date, the disc has sold 22 million copies in the United States and an estimated 50 million around the world. Loudwire contributor Jon Wiederhorn is the co-author of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal , as well as the co-author of Scott Ian’s autobiography, I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax , and Al Jourgensen’s autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen.

See Where Angus Young Ranks on Our List of the Top 50 Hard Rock + Metal Guitarists Image of You Think You Know AC/DC? Subscribe to Loudwire on AC/DC - Music on Google Play AC/DC About the artist AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. A hard rock/blues rock band, they have also been considered a heavy metal band, although they have always dubbed their music simply "rock and roll". AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975; Malcolm and Angus were the only original members left in the band. Membership subsequently stabilised until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 for the album Powerage. Within months of recording the album Highway to Hell, lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group considered disbanding, but buoyed by support from Scott's parents, decided to continue and set about finding a new vocalist. Ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was auditioned and selected to replace Scott.

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Although the band are considered pioneers of heavy metal, its members have always classified their music as "rock 'n' roll". AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975. Membership remained stable until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977. In 1979, the band recorded their highly successful album Highway to Hell. Lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group briefly considered disbanding, but soon ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was selected as Scott's replacement. Later that year, the band released their best-selling album, Back in Black. The band's next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was also highly successful and was their first album to reach number one in the United States. AC/DC declined in popularity soon after the departure of drummer Phil Rudd in 1983. Poor record sales continued until the release of The Razors Edge in 1990. Phil Rudd returned in 1994 and contributed to the band's 1995 album Ballbreaker.

Stiff Upper Lip was released in 2000 and was well-received by critics. The band's new album Black Ice was announced in June 2008 and was released on 20 October 2008. AC/DC have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, including 69 million albums in the United States. Back in Black has sold an estimated 42 million units worldwide and 22 million in the United States alone, making it the second highest-selling album ever in the United States. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" and the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band Of All Time" by MTV. In 2004, the band was ranked number 72 in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Source:

Question: Which Australian band released their album ‘Back in Black’ in July 1980?
Answer: AC/DC