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1980 studio anthology by Air-conditioning/DC

Back in Black
A black cover with "ACϟDC / BACK IN BLACK" in grey
Studio album by

Air-conditioning/DC
Released 25 July 1980 (1980-07-25)
Recorded April and May 1980
Studio Compass Betoken (Nassau, Bahamas)
Genre
  • Hard rock
  • heavy metal
  • arena rock
Length 42:11
Label
  • Albert
  • Atlantic
Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
AC/DC chronology
Highway to Hell
(1979) 		Back in Black
(1980) 		For Those Near to Rock We Salute You
(1981)
Singles from Dorsum in Black
  1. "You Shook Me All Night Long"
    Released: nineteen Baronial 1980
  2. "Hells Bells"
    Released: 31 October 1980
  3. "Dorsum in Blackness"
    Released: 21 December 1980
  4. "Rock and Ringlet Ain't Dissonance Pollution"
    Released: 15 March 1981

Back in Blackness is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released on 25 July 1980 past Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. It is the band's first anthology to characteristic lead singer Brian Johnson, post-obit the death of previous lead vocalist Bon Scott.

After the commercial breakthrough of their 1979 album Highway to Hell, Air conditioning/DC was planning to record a follow-up, but in Feb 1980, Scott died from booze poisoning after a drinking binge. Instead of disbanding, they decided to continue on and recruited Johnson, who was previously vocalist for Geordie.

The album was composed by Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young, and recorded over seven weeks in the Bahamas from April to May 1980 with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who had worked on their previous album. Post-obit its completion, the group mixed Back in Black at Electrical Lady Studios in New York City. The album's all-black cover was designed as a "sign of mourning" for Scott.

As their sixth international studio release, Dorsum in Blackness was an unprecedented success. It has sold an estimated fifty million copies worldwide,[ane] [2] [three] [4] and is the second acknowledged album in music history. The band supported the album with a yearlong earth tour, cementing them amid the about popular music acts of the early 1980s. The anthology also received positive critical reception during its initial release, and it has since been included on numerous lists of "greatest" albums. Since its original release, the anthology has been reissued and remastered multiple times, most recently for digital distribution. On ix December 2019, information technology was certified 25x Platinum past the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[5]

Background [edit]

Bon Scott, the band's former vocalizer in December 1979.

AC/DC, formed in 1973, first broke into international markets in 1977 with their fourth album, Permit There Be Rock.[6] By 1979, they were poised for greater success with their sixth, Highway to Hell. Robert John "Mutt" Lange produced the record, making the band'south sound more catchy and accessible, and information technology became their outset gold anthology in the United States, selling over 500,000 copies, while also peaking at number 17 on that state's pop charts and number eight in the United Kingdom.[6]

As the new decade approached, the grouping gear up off for the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and French republic for the final bout dates of their quantum release.[seven] They planned to begin recording a follow-up shortly later on its completion. On nineteen February 1980, Scott went on a drinking binge in a London pub that acquired him to lose consciousness, then a friend let him rest in the back of his Renault 5 overnight. The side by side morning, Scott was found unresponsive and rushed to Male monarch's College Hospital where medical personnel pronounced him expressionless on arrival. The coroner ruled that pulmonary aspiration of vomit was the cause of Scott's death, only the official crusade was listed on the expiry certificate equally "acute alcoholic poisoning" and classified as "expiry by misadventure". Scott was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family at Fremantle Cemetery in Fremantle, Western Commonwealth of australia.[8] The loss devastated the band, who considered breaking upwardly. However, friends and family persuaded them to carry on.[9]

After Bon Scott's funeral, the ring immediately began auditions for a replacement frontman. At the communication of Lange, the group brought in Geordie vocalizer Brian Johnson, who impressed the group.[10] After the ring begrudgingly worked through the residue of the list of applicants in the following days, Johnson returned for a 2nd rehearsal.[xi] On 29 March, Malcolm Young chosen the singer to offering him the job, to his surprise.[12]

Recording and product [edit]

This is the beginning album to feature Brian Johnson (pictured in 1982) as atomic number 82 singer.

As the band commenced writing new fabric for the followup to Highway to Hell, vocalizer Bon Scott, who began his career as a drummer with The Spektors, recorded the drum tracks on demo recordings of "Let Me Put My Dear into You" and "Have a Drink on Me".[13]

In a 2022 interview with Paste, Angus Young confirmed that Scott's contributions to the album were limited to playing drums on early demo versions of the songs "Hells Bells" (instead of "Let Me Put My Love into You") and "Take a Drink on Me."[14]

Rehearsals for Dorsum in Black were scheduled over three weeks at London's E-Zee Hire Studios, just it was cutting to i week when an opening came up at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, in the Bahamas. Although they preferred to record their next try in the United kingdom, there were no studios available, and the Bahama islands presented a nice revenue enhancement advantage.[15]

Back in Black was recorded from mid-April to May 1980 at Compass Point with producer "Mutt" Lange. Upon their inflow, the area was being hit past several tropical storms, wreaking havoc on the studio's electricity. Johnson recalled that: "It was hardly any kind of studio, we were in these footling concrete cells, comfy listen, you had a bed and a chair. And this large old black lady ran the whole place. Oh, she was fearsome, she ruled that place with a rod of iron. We had to lock the doors at night considering she'd warned us about these Haitians who'd come down at night and rob the place. So she bought us all these six-pes fishing spears to proceed at the fucking door! It was a bit of a stretch from Newcastle, I can tell you."[16] In addition, their equipment was initially held upwards by customs, and other gear was slowly freighted over from the UK.[17] Johnson felt force per unit area during the process, having never recorded with the grouping. None of Scott's writings were used for the album'southward lyrics, as the group felt it would seemingly profit from his passing. Johnson reported having trouble adjusting to the environment, and fifty-fifty referenced the bad weather on the opening lines of "Hells Bells" ("I'm rolling thunder, pourin' rain. I'm comin' on like a hurricane. My lightning'due south flashing beyond the heaven. Y'all're only immature but you're gonna die.")[18] Lange focused item attention on Johnson's vocals, demanding perfection out of each take.[19]

It was like, 'Over again, Brian, over again – hold on, y'all sang that annotation besides long and so in that location'south no room for a breath'. He wouldn't let annihilation go past him. He had this thing where he didn't want people to listen to the anthology down the road and say there's no way someone could sing that, they've dropped that in, even the breaths had to be in the correct place. And you cannot knock a man for that, but he drove me nuts. I'd be sitting in that location going, 'Arrggghh!'.

The full general attitude in the studio was optimistic. Engineer Tony Platt was dismayed, notwithstanding, to find the studio'south rooms were not sonically complementary to the group'due south sound, which was designed to be very dry and compact.[20] A humorous anecdote from the sessions involved a recording beingness interrupted by a crab shuffling across the studio's wooden flooring.[21] Angus Young's detail guitar sound was accomplished in part by a wireless guitar device, the Schaffer–Vega diversity system, a Ken Schaffer design which provided a bespeak boost and was reissued every bit a dissever guitar issue in 2014.[22] [23]

Nearly the terminate of the process, the ring phoned manager Ian Jeffery in search of a bell to include on the album.[24] Jeffery located a foundry to produce the bell, but with seven weeks having already gone by, he suggested Platt tape a nearby church's bells. These recordings did non suffice due to the audio of a flurry of birds flying away at each bell hitting. The foundry brought forward production on the bell, which turned out perfectly tuned, and it was recorded with Ronnie Lane'due south Mobile Studio.[25] Following the recording's completion, the group mixed Back in Black at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.[26]

According to Angus Young, the album'due south all-black cover was a "sign of mourning" for Scott. Atlantic Records disagreed with the cover, but accepted if the band put a grey outline effectually the Air conditioning/DC logo.[eighteen]

Release and promotion [edit]

Back in Black was kickoff released in the United States on 25 July 1980. Its release in the United Kingdom and the residue of Europe followed on 31 July, and on 11 August in Australia.[27] It was an immediate commercial success, debuting at number ane on the British albums chart and reaching number 4 on the American nautical chart—which Rolling Stone called "an infrequent showing for a heavy-metal album".[28] It topped the British nautical chart for 2 weeks and remained in the summit x of the American chart for more five months. In Australia, it reached number two on the ARIA Charts.[27]

After Back in Blackness was released, Air conditioning/DC's previous records Highway to Hell, If Y'all Want Blood You lot've Got It, and Let There Be Rock all re-entered the British charts, which made them the first ring since The Beatles to have iv albums in the British Peak 100 simultaneously.[29] Back in Black 's American success prompted Atlantic, the band'south US record company, to release their 1976 Muddied Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album for the outset time in the US; in May 1981 information technology surpassed Dorsum in Black on the US nautical chart at number three.[27]

To promote the album, music videos were filmed for the songs "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Hells Bells", the championship track, "Stone and Roll Ain't Noise disturbance", "Let Me Put My Love into You", and "What Do You Practise for Money Honey". Only the first 4 were released as singles.[27] In the US, the single "You Shook Me All Dark Long"/"Have a Drink on Me" became AC/DC's first Top 40 hitting in the country, peaking at no. 35.[29]

On thirteen Dec 2007, the anthology was certified 22× multi-platinum by the RIAA, denoting 22 million American sales.[thirty] This placed it 6th in the list of all-time-selling albums in the The states.[31] Worldwide, it went on to sell fifty 1000000 copies, leading NME announcer Mark Beaumont to call it "the biggest selling hard stone anthology ever made";[32] rock historian Brock Helander said it was possibly "the acknowledged heavy-metal anthology in history".[33]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Retrospective professional reviews
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [34]
Blender [35]
Christgau's Record Guide B− [36]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [37]
The Great Stone Discography 8/10[38]
MusicHound Rock 5/5[39]
Pitchfork 8.eight/x[40]
Rolling Stone [41]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide [42]
Spin Alternative Tape Guide eight/x[38]

Reviewing for Rolling Rock in 1980, David Fricke regarded Back in Blackness as "non just the all-time of AC/DC's six American albums" but "the noon of heavy-metal fine art: the first LP since Led Zeppelin 2 that captures all the blood, sweat and arrogance of the genre."[43] Red Starr from Boom Hits was more than disquisitional, finding the songs duplicate from 1 some other and marred by hypermasculine fantasies, stone music stock phrases, garish guitar, and slow rhythms, on "yet another triumph for lowest common denominator headbanging—the new thoroughly predictable, thoroughly dreadful AC/DC album." He gave the record a score of 3 out of ten.[44]

In a retrospective review, Rolling Stone critic Christian Hoard praised the album as the band'southward greatest work, perchance "the leanest and meanest record of all time—balls-out arena rock that punks could love."[41] Barry Walters from Rolling Stone said Back in Black "nevertheless sounds thoroughly timeless, the essence of unrepentantly simple but savagely crafted hard rock" and "a celebration of thrashing, animal sex activity", although he observed "hateful-spirited sexism" on songs such equally "What Practise You Do for Money Honey" and "Given the Dog a Bone".[45] Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic, finding the ring somewhat also "archaic" and their sexual imagery "unimaginative". "Angus Young does come up with killer riffs", he wrote in Christgau's Tape Guide: The '80s (1990), "though non as consistently equally a refined person like myself might hope, and lead singer Brian Johnson sings like in that location's a cattle prod at his scrotum, just the affair for fans who tin can't decide whether their newfound testosterone is desperation or ecstasy."[36]

As her favourite album, Kitty Empire of The Observer acknowledged Back in Blackness is "a preposterous, drongoid tape ... built on casual sexism, heart-rolling double entendres, a highly questionable attitude to sexual consent ('Don't you struggle/ Don't you lot fight/ Don't yous worry/ Cos information technology's your plough tonight') a penchant for firearms, and a crass celebration of the unthinking macho hedonism that killed the ring's original singer." Withal, she concurred with Fricke'due south original view of the anthology as a heavy metal masterpiece while naming it her favourite anthology ever, "the obsessive soundtrack of my adolescence, the racy middle-brow thriller that spoke to me both equally a tomboy who wanted to be ane of the guys, and the increasingly female ingenue who needed to piece of work out the world of men. Plus teenagers love death."[46]

The album is featured on many "best of" lists. In 1989, information technology was ranked No. 26 on Rolling Stone magazine'southward list of the 100 All-time Albums of the Eighties. The championship rails was ranked no. 190 on the same magazine's listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[47] In 2001, VH1 ranked Back in Black No. 82 on its list of the Elevation 100 Albums.[48] VH1 also placed the title track at No. 2 on its list of the 100 Greatest Difficult Rock Songs. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 73 on Rolling Stone 's listing of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time",[49] No. 77 in a 2012 revised listing[50] and No. 84 in a 2022 revised list.[51] In 2006, Q placed the album at No. 9 in its list of the 40 Best Albums of the '80s.[52] That same year, Back in Black was included by Time in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time.[53] It was listed at No. 2 in the book, 100 All-time Australian Albums, in Oct 2010,[54] and included in the book 1001 Albums Y'all Must Hear Before You lot Die in 2005.[55]

Legacy and influence [edit]

Back in Black is an influential hard rock and heavy metal album.[56] According to Tim Jonze of The Guardian, it has been hailed by some as "a high watermark" for heavy metal music.[57] NME regarded it equally an important release in 1980s metallic and heavy stone, naming information technology one of the twenty best metal albums of its decade,[58] while The Daily Telegraph ranked it as ane of the 20 greatest heavy metal albums of all time.[59] Paul Brannigan of Metallic Hammer cited information technology as one of the 10 albums that helped reestablish the genre's global popularity in 1980, making it "the greatest yr for heavy metal".[60]

According to rock journalist Joe South. Harrington, Back in Black was released at a time when heavy metal stood at a turning point between a decline and a revival, as near bands in the genre were playing slower tempos and longer guitar solos, while Ac/DC and Van Halen adopted punk rock's "high-free energy implications" and "constricted their songs into more pop-oriented blasts". Harrington credited producer Lange for drawing AC/DC further away from the dejection-oriented rock of their previous albums, and toward a more than dynamic set on that concentrated and harmonized each chemical element of the band: "the guitars were compacted into a singular argument of rhythmic efficiency, the rhythm section provided the thunderhorse overdrive, and singer Johnson belowed and brayed similar the most unhinged practitioner of bluesy elevation-human dynamics since vintage Robert Plant." The resulting music, along with contemporaneous records past Motörhead and Ozzy Osbourne, helped revitalize and reintroduce metal to a younger generation of listeners, "eventually resulting in the punk-metallic crossover personified by Metallica and others."[61] In 1,000 Recordings to Hear Earlier You Die (2008), Tom Moon said Back in Black 's "lean hateful loonshit rock" and the production's "delicate residual of power and finesse" defined the commercial side of heavy music for years after its release."[62]

Lange's production for the anthology had an enduring bear on in the music industry; "to this twenty-four hours, producers still employ information technology as the de facto paint-by-numbers guidebook for how a difficult-rock tape should sound", Harrington wrote.[61] In the years later on its release, studios in Nashville would use it to check the acoustics of a room, while Motörhead would employ it to melody their sound system.[63] American death metallic group Six Feet Under recorded a cover of the unabridged album under the title Graveyard Classics two.[64]

In Dec 2021, the album was listed at number i in Rolling Stone Australia 's "200 Greatest Albums of All Time" countdown.[65]

Track listing [edit]

All tracks are written by Angus Young, Malcolm Immature and Brian Johnson.

Side A
No. Title Length
one. "Hells Bells" five:ten
two. "Shoot to Thrill" 5:17
3. "What Do Y'all Practise for Money Love" three:33
iv. "Given the Dog a Bone" 3:30
5. "Allow Me Put My Love into Yous" 4:16
Side B
No. Title Length
half-dozen. "Dorsum in Black" 4:xv
7. "You Shook Me All Nighttime Long" 3:thirty
eight. "Take a Drink on Me" 3:57
9. "Shake a Leg" 4:06
10. "Stone and Roll Own't Racket Pollution" 4:fifteen
Full length: 42:11
  • According to the official AC/DC website and most worldwide releases, rail 4 is "Given the Canis familiaris a Bone".[66] [67] On some albums, item Australian releases, and also in the iTunes Store, it is sometimes shown as either "Givin' the Dog a Os" or "Giving the Domestic dog a Bone".[68] [69]

Personnel [edit]

AC/DC [edit]

  • Brian Johnson – lead vocals
  • Angus Young – lead guitar
  • Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Phil Rudd – drums

Product [edit]

  • Robert John "Mutt" Lange – production
  • Tony Platt – assistant applied science
  • Benji Armbrister – assistant engineering
  • Jack Newber – assistant engineering
  • Brad Samuelsohn – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering (original LP)
  • Barry Diament – mastering (original CD releases)
  • Ted Jensen – remastering (EMI/Atco reissue)
  • George Marino – remastering (Epic reissue)
  • Bob Defrin – art direction
  • Robert Ellis – photography

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Run across also [edit]

  • List of best-selling albums
  • Listing of best-selling albums in Australia
  • Listing of best-selling albums in France
  • List of best-selling albums in the U.s.
  • List of diamond-certified albums in Canada
  • List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s
  • Listing of Top 25 albums for 1980 in Australia
  • List of Canadian number-ane albums of 1981
  • List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1980s

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Bibliography [edit]

  • Engleheart, Murray; Durieux, Arnaud (2008). AC/DC: Maximum Stone & Coil . Harper Entertainment. ISBN978-0-06-113391-half-dozen.

External links [edit]

  • Back in Blackness at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Back in Black at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

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