Thursday, July 22, 2010

Album Spotlight


This Sunday the 25th of July will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of one of the most popular albums of all time, Back In Black by AC/DC.
This was the follow up the AC/DC's hugely popular Highway To Hell, which was sadly the last to feature lead singer Bon Scott. He died in February of 1980 in the middle of the writing of songs for what became this album.
The group toyed with the idea of disbanding but decided to move on and found new lead singer in Brian Johnson and ask Highway to Hell producer Mutt Lang to come in and produce the new album. As a sign of tribute and dedication to Bon Scott, the album has a black cover (the western color of mourning) and named "Back In Black".
This became, to that point, their highest charting LP by reaching #4 on the US Billboard album chart and #1 in the UK.
There were 5 singles from the LP with the highest charting US single being "You Shook Me All Night Long" which reached #35. In the UK they reached #15 with "Rock n Roll Aint Noise Pollution".
They reached the top of the US Billboard album chart in 1981 with their next release, For Those About Rock (We Salute You).
Currently Back In Black is the 2nd biggest selling album worldwide with 49 million copies sold, behind Michael Jackson's Thriller which is at 50 million sold.
In the US the album sits at #4 all time with 22 million copies sold.





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