Back In Black
Own It
- 7th studio album, first with Brian Johnson.
- Their previous singer, Bon Scott, died of alcohol poisoning in 1980.
- Johnson got the gig via auditions the band held almost immediately after Scott’s death.
- They started working on the album just 3 days after Scott's funeral and it was released only 5 months after his death.
- 2nd best selling album of all time (50m+ copies sold), behind Thriller.
- Is the best selling rock album of all time.
- Came after the commercial breakthrough of Highway To Hell (1979).
- The all black cover was designed as a “sign of mourning” for Scott.
- They wanted to have the title in all black as well but their label insisted the text be bordered in grey.
- The album was mixed at Electric Lady studio in New York.
- The bell in Hells Bells was custom-made.