For Those About to Rock We Salute You
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| Studio album by AC/DC | ||||
| Released | 23 November 1981 | |||
| Recorded | May–September 1981 ; in the suburb of Paris | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 40:10 | |||
| Label | Albert/Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
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| Robert Christgau | C |
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You is the eighth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's seventh internationally released studio album and the eighth to be released in Australia.
Released in 1981, the album is a follow-up to their highly successful album Back in Black. For Those About to Rock has sold over four million copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. until the release of Black Ice in October 2008. In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone magazine declared it to be their best album. In Australia, the album peaked at No. 3 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.
The album, recorded in Paris, France, was the third and final produced for the band by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC remasters series.
By the summer of 1981, Back in Black, AC/DC's sixth international release, was nothing short of a phenomenon. It was the band's biggest album by far, having gone platinum multiple times, a feat all the more remarkable because it featured a new vocalist, Brian Johnson, who had replaced the late Bon Scott. In fact, Back in Black was such a smash that Atlantic Records in the United States finally released the band's 1976 album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, an LP the label had initially rejected because they felt the production was subpar. In addition, Red Bus Records released an album of recordings by Geordie, Johnson's old band, under the name Brian Johnson and Geordie to cash in on the group's massive success. In December 1980, the film Let There Be Rock, featuring concert footage and interviews with the band from the Scott-era Highway to Hell tour, was released in France and was enormously successful; according to the 2006 Murray Engelheart book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, the movie did a million dollars of ticket sales in Paris, while 300,000 people across the country also saw it - an almost unprecedented response to a music movie, which cost roughly $100,000 to make. Engleheart also states that the Rolling Stones offered the band a million dollars to open at least one stadium date on their 1981 North American tour, but the band turned them down because they were focused on finishing what would turn out to be For Those About to Rock We Salute You.
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