At the time, Johnson was working as a windshield fitter and had recently reunited his old band Geordie.ġ5 Apr AC/DC started recording Back in Black in the Bahamas Malcolm Young called the singer to offer him the job to his surprise. The Birthplace Of Ac/dc19 Feb ’80 Bon diedĢ9 Mar hired Brian Johnson as singer. Spencer from Texasthe only logical thing to do whilst reading this is to listen to back in black.There have definitely been great, and successful AC/DC songs and albums after this one, though, look at FTATR, Thunderstruck, The Black Ice album and tour, etc. You've provided some legit reasons for that and look at the fact that he hasn't been credited with anything since '88. You may be right about him not writing lyrics, though. (Not to take anything away from Bon Scott, he was awesome in his own right) Have you ever tried to sing his songs and hit the notes he hits in songs like "Hell's Bells" and "Shoot To Thrill" and many others? THAT's why he's so great for AC/DC. Have you even considered that the reason BIB was so successful was that fact that (along with tighter songwriting and better production) the VOCALS were absolutely awesome for a rock record? Johnson is a criminally underrated vocalist. You Shook Me All Night Long doesn't sound anything like either version of "You Shook Me". Just because a song's title is similar to another song, doesn't mean it is the same song or was even adapted from that song. The "birthplace of AC/DC" is Melbourne, not Sydney.Ģ. Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganKanga Blue, A couple things:ġ.An unbelievable commercial hook writer." (Check out our full interview with Alex Call.) Rob was playing violin parts for like seven or eight hours and finally he said, 'Can I take a break,' and Mutt says, 'What do you mean take a break?' Rob goes, 'Have you ever held one of these for eight hours under your chin?' Mutt really loves to record, he loves music and he's a real perfectionist and an innovator. The story I heard about one of the Shania sessions, he had Rob Hajakos, who's one of the famous fiddle session men down here (Nashville). We were the last record he did that wasn't enormous, and that's not his fault, he did a really good job with us. A lot of the things you hear on Def Leppard and that kind of stuff, he was developing that when he worked with us. We'd do 8 tracks of background vocals going, "Oooooh" and bounce those down to one track and then do another 8, he was doing a lot of that. He is one of the guys that really developed that whole multi-multi-multi track recording. When we were making the records with him, he'd start working at 10:30, 11 in the morning and go until 3 at night, night after night. In the late-'70s, he produced two albums for the band Clover, which featured Huey Lewis on harmonica and Alex Call on lead vocals. He went on to work with Def Leppard, Celine Dion, and Shania Twain (who he married in 1993). Back In Black was one of the first big albums Lange produced. This song was recorded in The Bahamas and produced in New York by Mutt Lange.
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