All told, Back In Black spent a whopping 22 weeks in the Billboard 200 Top Ten. The album, produced by “Mutt” Lange, took off, and eventually sold over 25 million copies in the U.S. AC/DC had made some serious headway in America before Scott's death, but no one knew how Back In Black would be received. The group quickly decided to press on and hired Brian Johnson from the band Geordie to take over on vocals, and they headed to the Bahamas for about six weeks to do the album. It was the band's first set without lead singer Bon Scott, who had died on February 19th, 1980 at age 33, after passing out and choking on his own vomit following a long night of drinking. It was 41 years ago Sunday (July 25th, 1980), that AC/DC released their biggest selling album ever, Back In Black.
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