Shortly after successfully auditioning for the gig, Johnson traveled with the band and producer Robert “Mutt” Lange - who’d overseen the previous year’s Highway to Hell, AC/DC’s first entry on the Billboard 200 - to Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.Īlthough everyone was feeling “a bit jittery,” as lead guitarist and band mascot Angus Young told Rolling Stone, the band got down to business, emerging from those spring 1980 sessions with a mammoth-sounding record that referenced their recent loss without dwelling on it. Taking the helm was Brian Johnson, a phlegmy English shrieker with a voice similar - yet by no means identical - to Scott’s. The remaining members could’ve called it quits, but they plugged back in and returned with 10 more songs about sex, booze, bad mojo, rock ‘n’ roll, and, in an indirect way, the irreplaceable frontman they’d somehow managed to replace. AC/DC Delivers the Thunder at Coachella 2015
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