![]() ![]() ![]() Brian co-wrote the album's songs with guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, including such classics as the title track, "Hells Bells" and "You Shook Me All Night Long."īack in Black peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 and went on to sell over 25 million copies in the U.S., making it the best-selling hard-rock record ever in the States. The gravel-voiced vocalist, who hails from Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., served as the lead singer of the Newcastle-based glam-rock outfit Geordie throughout most of the 1970s before AC/DC hired him to replace Bon Scott, who died in February 1980 at age 33 from "acute alcohol poisoning."ĪC/DC were already a hugely popular band, but Johnson's first album with the Australian rockers, 1980's Back in Black, made them superstars. Here's wishing a very happy 75th birthday to longtime AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson, who was born October 5, 1947. ![]()
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