AC/DC recruits Brian Johnson

March 1980: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThe death of Bon Scott in February 1980 did nothing to halt AC/DC. Instead, they recruited an iron-lunged geordie whose rolling around on stage while screaming had once impressed Scott (it turned out Brian Johnson had been trying to perform through appendicitis). Within a month of recruiting Johnson, the band decamped to the Bahamas to record Back in Black. To say it was a success is to understate matters: with ...

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