29), 1976's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (No. In addition to topping "200 Greatest Australian Albums Of All Time" review, AC/DC also placed three other albums on the list: 1979's "Highway To Hell" (No. We'll just carry on and not even think about what we're going to do.' So it was really after we had been to Bon's funeral and talked with his parents-and especially Bon's father had been the one who had said to us, 'Bon loved working with you two guys-he would have really wanted you to go on.' And that was good for us, because it felt like we had his blessing."ĪC/DC brought in former Geordie singer Brian Johnson to handle lead vocals and went on to issue "Back In Black", which would serve as a tribute to Bon and go on to become the best-selling hard rock album of all time with estimated worldwide sales of 50 million. "Malcolm said, 'We'll just continue doing what we do. "I always took my cues from Malcolm, because Malcolm got us through, especially in the Bon era," Angus told Paste magazine earlier this year.
Led by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, the pair hunkered down and continued writing songs as they dealt with the loss of their bandmate while facing a period of uncertainty about their own future as a group. "It's been an amazing experience to go in-depth with many of these records, realizing and understanding the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making each and every one."ĪC/DC were riding high with the success of their commercial breakthrough, 1979's "Highway To Hell", and were preparing to work on material for their next album when singer Bon Scott passed away in February 1980 at the age of 33 after a night of heavy drinking in London. "Australia truly does have some of the greatest music in the world," says Rolling Stone Australia Editor Tyler Jenke. The review was compiled with input from over 800 music industry figures, journalists, producers and artists before being whittled down to the final 200 records by a group of internal staff and music experts. The project topped the magazine's newly-published list of the "200 Greatest Australian Albums Of All Time", which spans 55 years of Australian popular music - stretching from 1965 right up until 2020 - with a focus on the individual records that have defined, characterized and subverted the sound and shape of Australian music history. album charts, spawning a second Top 40 hit in the form of its title track and a sports-stadium anthem in the form of “Hells Bells” and ultimately selling more than 20 million copies worldwide.(hennemusic) AC/DC's 1980 blockbuster classic, "Back In Black", has been named the Greatest Australian Album Of All Time in a new survey by Rolling Stone Australia. The album would spend a solid year on the U.S. He said that he had often fantasized about the american women. With new singer Brian Johnson put in place just two months later, the group formed in the early 1970s by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young recorded Back In Black in the summer of 1980. Youre both wrong, Johnson stated in a documentary that this song was written for a sex FANTASY.
album charts, but the group’s planned follow-up was put in jeopardy by the March 1980 death of lead singer Bon Scott, who choked on his own vomit during a bout of heavy drinking. Their previous release, Highway To Hell (1979) had been the first by the group to land on the U.S. “You Shook Me All Night Long” was the lead single from what would prove to be AC/DC’s biggest-ever album, Back In Black (1980). It is AC/DCs first single with Brian Johnson as the lead singer, replacing Bon Scott who died of alcohol poisoning in February 1980. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. With a hard and loud sound now recognized as influencing nearly all heavy metal music that followed, AC/DC quickly earned a loyal following among hard-rock audiences in the mid-to-late 1970s, but it was “You Shook Me All Night Long” that first gave a hint of their mainstream appeal. About 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.