After the commercial breakthrough of their 1979 album Highway to Hell, AC. Shown is the cover of the German release of the 'Thunderstruck' single. It was released as a single in Germany, Australia and Japan. The song peaked at number 5 on Billboards Mainstream Rock Tracks. It is the band's first album to feature lead singer Brian Johnson, following the death of previous lead singer Bon Scott. 'Thunderstruck' is the first song on the 1990 AC/DC album The Razors Edge. We send your music to a targeted group of playlist curators, they review your song for playlist consideration. Whether you make pop music or are an instrumental pianist, you only pay to reach the curators that will dig your music. It was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. Promote your music by submitting your songs to active playlist curators. We just need a good, tough rock and roll sound." I was shocked he asked me, you know, "Do you want to be part of it?" And I was like, yeah, sure, I'll try. Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. He said to me, "Whenever you go to a bar, the songs that get you going are the tough-sounding songs - something with a bit of grit in it. I'd love to hear you talk about what he meant to you, not just recently, but maybe in those early days when you started the group.Īngus Young: Malcolm was - it was his idea from get go. I think we all had our heads up in that studio.Īngus, there's a huge missing piece here for you, obviously - your brother, who died in 2017. I was lucky to have had such a great life. Johnson: Absolutely! But at the same time, I was just thinking, I wasn't going to die of it. We were very lucky, somebody found me: a wonderful fellow that just said, "Listen, I can help you." I took a chance - because it could have been smoke and mirrors, but it wasn't. How bad did it get?īrian Johnson: It was pretty bad - you know, being on the front line for many, many years. You had to drop out of that earlier tour because of the hearing issue, and your doctors thought you might go completely deaf if you didn't stop. It may be no different than what came before, but Rock or Bust is by many measures stronger than most latter-day AC/DC albums, serving as a testament to why their good-humored raunch and industrial-strength riffs made them a rock & roll institution.David Greene: Brian, you had quite a journey to get there. If Rock or Bust does indeed wind up as the final AC/DC record - they did indeed weather many setbacks during its creation - it will stand as a suitable career-capper. This being an AC/DC album, Rock or Bust isn't perfect - the biggest stumble is the heavy dirge of "Dogs of War," which may or may not be a protest song - but the entire thing moves, never wasting time on extraneous licks, and this no-nonsense approach means the songs stick in a way they never did on Black Ice. If anything, it's oddly light on its feet, with "Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder" and "Hard Times" containing some swing and air in their rhythms and "Sweet Candy" feeling like part of a line of nasty bubblegum rock that stretches back to the early days of Harry Vanda and George Young. Angus completed the songs from old riff tapes he and his brother demoed, so Rock or Bust doesn't feel markedly different than any other AC/DC album. Malcolm may have been missing but his presence is felt. Angus and producer Brendan O'Brien, who helmed the group's 2008 predecessor, Black Ice, enlisted the Young brothers' nephew Stevie to fill out some parts and the band whipped the record into shape in short order (admittedly with not much help from drummer Phil Rudd, who was tardy in the studio and effectively left the band in a cloud of criminal allegations prior to the album's release).
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During recording, the band revealed that founding guitarist Malcolm Young was suffering from dementia, leaving his brother Angus in full charge of the band. Maybe that's a reflection of the album's difficult birth. It's just 11 songs, the fewest number of cuts since 1995's Rick Rubin-produced Ballbreaker, but a better way to view it is that it's not even 35 minutes long, making it the shortest album AC/DC have ever released. Rock or Bust, the group's 15th studio album, benefits from a modest sense of scale. But this implies that Back in Black is some kind of tribute. As meaty as they are, they sound best when they're lean - when there's not much fat on the bone, when they choose not to indulge in a fourth chord. The first sound on Back in Black is the deep, ominous drone of church bells - or 'Hell's Bells,' as it were, opening the album and AC/DC 's next era with a fanfare while ringing a fond farewell to Bon Scott, their late lead singer who partied himself straight to hell. Economy counts for a lot on an AC/DC record.
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