Back in Black by AC/DC — album cover
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Back in Black

AC/DC · 1980 · Hard rock

AC/DC lost their singer in February 1980 and had a finished album by May. Bon Scott was dead at thirty-three; Brian Johnson had been in the band a matter of weeks; the sleeve was painted black as a headstone. It went on to outsell every rock record ever made.

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