Has it really been 40 years, 50 million copies sold worldwide and now generations of fans grooving to this album? Yes, indeed.
It was their seventh album, second with producer Robert John “Mutt”
Lange, and first with new singer Brian Johnson which catapulted them to
mass international success, as well as eventually being recognized as
among the greatest albums in the history of rock and roll.
But the beauty of it all—if one could use such a term with this band and this album in
particular—is that stripped of all the myth and legend, at the end of
the day, it’s a collection of, as the cliché goes, all killer no filler,
that sounds so, so good and rocks as hard as it did on that summer day
it was released all those years ago.
If, as the lyrics state on
album closer and fourth and final single “Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise
Pollution", this music “ain't never gonna die”, then these 10 songs
will very likely have something to do with it. Yeah...
Recorded in the Bahamas and mixed in New York City, this perennial favorite was released July 25, 1980.
