Released: 23 November 1981Recorded: May-September 1981in the suburb of Paris
Label: Albert/Atlantic Records
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. The album, recorded in Paris, France, was the third and final produced for the band by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. 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. 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. In July 1981, the band began work on the album at EMI Pathe-Marconi Studios in Paris with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange but were unsatisfied with the sound, eventually opting to record the basic tracks in an old warehouse on the outskirts of Paris with the Mobile One studio, with vocals later recorded at Family Sound Studio and overdubs done at HIS Studios. In September the album was finished.
Band members:
Brian Johnson – lead vocals
Phil Rudd – drums, percussion
Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals
Angus Young – lead guitar
Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Robert John "Mutt" Lange - producer
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