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Live At River Plate (album)
''Live at River Plate'' is a live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 19 November 2012. The album was recorded during AC/DC's ''Black Ice World Tour'' on 4 December 2009 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. Video footage from the same concert was previously officially released in May 2011 on DVD and Blu-ray as ''Live at River Plate''. This is the band's final live album to feature original rhythm guitarist and co-founder Malcolm Young before his retirement in 2014 due to his health and death in 2017. Critical and commercial response The album received mixed to positive reviews from publications such as Allmusic, for which Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that while the band's vocalist, "Brian Johnson sounds a little worse for wear" still "the brothers Young, Cliff Williams, and Phil Rudd remain as solid as a boulder". Newer songs such as "Rock 'n' Roll Train", in Erlewine's opinion, fit in perfectly alongside AC/DC's earlier work that that group continues to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC/DC
AC/DC (stylised as ACϟDC) are an Australian Rock music, rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm Young, Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and Heavy metal music, heavy metal, but the band calls it simply "rock and roll". AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, 1975's ''High Voltage (1975 album), High Voltage''. Membership subsequently stabilised around the Young brothers, singer Bon Scott, drummer Phil Rudd, and bassist Mark Evans (musician), Mark Evans. Evans was fired from the band in 1977 and replaced by Cliff Williams, who has appeared on every AC/DC album since 1978's ''Powerage''. In February 1980, about seven months after the release of their breakthrough album ''Highway to Hell'', Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning after a night of heavy drinking. AC/DC considered disbanding, but at Scott's family's request, the remaining members opted to conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back In Black (song)
"Back in Black" is a song by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released as the second US single from their seventh album of the same name in 1980 through Atlantic Records. It is notable for its opening guitar riff. The song was written as a tribute to their former singer Bon Scott, who died in February 1980. In 1981, it reached number 37 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In 2012, it reached number 65 in Australia and number 27 in the United Kingdom. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Back in Black" was ranked number 22. Background Known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC's tribute to their former singer Bon Scott. His replacement Brian Johnson recalled to ''Mojo'' magazine in 2009 that when the band asked him to write a lyric for this song, "they said, 'it can't be morbid – it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration. He added: "I thought, 'Well no pressure there, then' (laughs). I just wrote what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian singer and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. Born in Forfar in Angus, Scotland, Scott spent his early years in Kirriemuir. He moved to Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six, living in Melbourne for four years before settling in Fremantle, Western Australia. With AC/DC Scott performed on the band's first seven albums: ''High Voltage'' (1975, Australian only release), ''T.N.T.'' (1975, Australian only release), ''High Voltage'' (1976, first international release), ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'' (1976, not released until 1981 in the United States), ''Let There Be Rock'' (1977), ''Powerage'' (1978), ''Highway to Hell'' (1979). Scott formed his first band, the Spektors, in 1964 and became the band's drummer and occasional lead vocalist. He performed in several other bands, including the Valentines and Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and only remaining original member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Young was ranked 24th in ''Rolling Stone''s 100 greatest guitarists of all-time list. In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early life In the 1950s, Young's father, William Young (1911–1985), his mother, Margaret (1913–1988; maiden name also Young), and his elder seven siblings lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow in Scotland. Cranhill was a tough, working-class suburb with high unemployment. Prior to moving to Cranhill, William worked first as a wheel boy in a rope works and then as a machine/saw operator in an asbestos/cement business. In 1940 William joined the Royal Air Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital multimedia, on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs, as well as play content with the use of dynamic, smart playlists. Options for sound optimizations exist, as well as ways to wirelessly share the iTunes library. Originally announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001, iTunes' original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a version of the program for Windows, it became a ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC/DC Discography
Australian rock band AC/DC have released 18 studio albums, two soundtrack albums, three live albums, one extended play, 57 singles, 11 video albums, 52 music videos and two box sets. Although many AC/DC singles have been released, the band refused to issue any greatest hits albums. '' Who Made Who'', which served as the soundtrack to Stephen King's film ''Maximum Overdrive'', '' Iron Man 2'' and the band's various live recordings are the closest they have issued to such a compilation. Brothers Angus (lead guitar) and Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar) formed AC/DC in 1973. * 1st edition n-line * 2nd edition rint The band released two albums in Australasia before issuing their first international effort, '' High Voltage'' in 1976; the Youngs had been joined by vocalist Bon Scott, bassist Mark Evans and drummer Phil Rudd. In 1980, less than a year after the appearance of the successful '' Highway to Hell'', Scott died and was replaced by British singer Brian Johnson, with wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" is a song by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The song was first released on AC/DC's eighth studio album ''For Those About to Rock We Salute You'' in 1981, and later as a single in 1982. The single's B-side contains an edited live version of "Let There Be Rock", recorded in Landover, Maryland, in late 1981. The video to "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" was filmed at that same concert. The song was later included on AC/DC's first soundtrack album, ''Who Made Who'', released in 1986 for the Stephen King film ''Maximum Overdrive''. Inspiration The title and central lyric of the song are based on an ancient salute used by Roman prisoners to be executed in the Colosseum, "'' Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant''" ("Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you"). In February 2021, speaking to Zane Lowe on Essentials Radio on Apple Music 1, Angus Young revealed that the inspiration behind the song was British poet, novelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the first track of the group's second album ''T.N.T.'', released only in Australia and New Zealand on 8 December 1975, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott. The song combines bagpipes with hard rock instrumentation; in the middle section of the song there is a call and response between the bagpipes and guitar. The original recording is in B-flat major, but it was played live in A major.Evans, Mark, ''Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC'', Bazillion Points, 2011, p. 40. The song is also the first track on the internationally released ''High Voltage'' (April 1976). The full version of the song is also on the ''Volts'' CD of the ''Bonfire'' box set, released in 1997. This was a signature song for Bon Scott. Brian Johnson, who replaced Scott as AC/DC's lead vocalist after Scott's death in 1980, does not perform it, out of respect for his pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hells Bells (song)
"Hells Bells" is the first track of ''Back in Black'', the seventh studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC and their comeback album after the death of lead singer Bon Scott. "Hells Bells" is the second single from ''Back in Black'', released on 31 October 1980. The song also appears on ''Who Made Who'', AC/DC's 1986 soundtrack to the Stephen King film ''Maximum Overdrive'' and on both versions of 1992's ''AC/DC Live''. Composition "Hells Bells" begins with the slow, funeral tolling of a bronze bell. Manufactured by John Taylor & Co Bellfounders in Loughborough, the sound of the bell was recorded by Tony 'the hat' Platt using Ronnie 'big ron' Lane's mobile studio inside the bell foundry following the completion of the ''Back in Black'' tracking sessions at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. Reception "Hells Bells" is widely regarded as one of the band's best songs. In 2020, ''The Guardian'' ranked the song number six on their list of the 40 greatest AC/DC songs, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoot To Thrill
"Shoot to Thrill" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the second track on the 1980 album ''Back in Black''. This song is also the second track of ''AC/DC Live'' and ''AC/DC Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition'', and is included on the ''Iron Man 2'' soundtrack. Although the studio version was never released as a single, the song is a fan favourite and a staple on classic rock radio stations. Music video On 26 January 2010, a new music video for "Shoot to Thrill" was released with exclusive footage from the film ''Iron Man 2''. The live concert footage used in the video was filmed in December 2009 at a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Estadio Monumental, from which the ''Live at River Plate'' DVD was filmed. Live recordings Several different live recordings of "Shoot to Thrill" have been released officially. One version, recorded from the ''Razors Edge World Tour'', was released on the 1992 ''Live'' album. Another version, recorded from the 1991 Donington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whole Lotta Rosie
"Whole Lotta Rosie" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the eighth and final track on the band's fourth Australian album, ''Let There Be Rock'', released in Australia in March 1977, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. It is also the eighth and final track on the international version of the album, released in June the same year. It was released as a single in a few countries in 1977, backed by " Dog Eat Dog". In 1978, the live version from ''If You Want Blood You've Got It'', which had been recorded in Glasgow on 30 April 1978, was also released as a single. Composition The song is about an obese Tasmanian woman, Rosie, with whom the singer (Bon Scott) had a one-night stand at the Freeway Gardens Motel in North Melbourne. In addition to pointing out the woman's size, the singer finds her to be one of the most talented lovers he has ever experienced. The song's first verse reveals Rosie's substantial physical measurements (42"-39"-56" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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