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"Back in Black" is a song by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released as the second US single from their seventh album of the same name in 1980 through Atlantic Records . Notable for its opening guitar riff, the song was written as a tribute to the band's former singer Bon Scott , who died suddenly in February 1980.
Black Ice is the fifteenth studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. First released in Europe on 17 October 2008 and released internationally on 20 October 2008, it was produced by Brendan O'Brien. It marked the band's first original recordings since Stiff Upper Lip (2000), with the eight-year gap being the longest between AC/DC's successive ...
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. After the commercial breakthrough of their 1979 album Highway to Hell, AC ...
[3] [4] [5] The album Black Ice, from 2008, reached number one in 29 countries. [6] In 50 years of their career, AC/DC have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, [7] and 83 million in the United States. [8] Back in Black sold 50 million copies worldwide, and became the second best-selling album in history. [9]
The album is a follow-up to their highly successful album Back in Black. For Those About to Rock has sold over four million copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. until the release of Black Ice in October 2008. In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone magazine declared
You Shook Me All Night Long. " You Shook Me All Night Long " is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from the album Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. It is AC/DC's first single with Brian Johnson as the lead singer, replacing Bon Scott who died of alcohol poisoning in February 1980.
Back in Black alone sold 25 million copies in the US (50 million worldwide), and went on to become the second highest-selling album in history. [6] Verizon made AC/DC albums available for digital download in 2007; [7] [8] for five years the band refused to release their albums via iTunes, as that company allows downloading of individual tracks. [9]
Backtracks is a box set by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was announced on 29 September 2009 and was released on 10 November 2009 (the Deluxe Edition was shipped out early, before the scheduled release date, due to overwhelming fan reaction and anticipation). [ 10] This is a collection of the band's studio and live rarities together in one ...