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| Ten Thousand Motels |
AC/DC Top Dollar Aussie Rock Band Again
Sydney Morning Herald
So given that AC/DC inspires the title to this blog it's worth drawing your attention to what has become an annual ritual. The 2007 Business Review Weekly list of top earning Australian entertainers has once again named them as Australia's top-earning rock band. And this in spite of not having released a new album since 2000!
They still earned $18 million in the past year, selling three million records a year - helped of course by the 2003 release of the remastered versions of their 17 album back catalogue. That tops up the 150 million records that they've sold worldwide, putting them fifth after The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Eagles in all time record sales.
Their 1980 Back In Black album alone has sold 42 million copies, making it the biggest-selling album by any band ever. Last year they also sold over a million ringtones.
Of course, aside from the out-and-in again Phil Rudd, none of the band were actually born here, but they did form here so we still count them as our own. One of the things that we've always liked about them is that between albums and tours they just disappear, not being seen or heard of in the paparazzi pages or swanning around at celebrity parties and openings. Apparently the teetotal Angus just likes to sit around home drinking buckets of tea and smoking packets of cigarettes.
That basic down-to-earth style is what has made them and their music so universally attractive for so long, avoiding embarrassing excess or fleeting fashionability, keeping things simple and direct and somehow timeless and pure. They simply rock.
Once asked about the lack of ballads in their repertoire, Angus simply responded "What about She Got The Jack?"
Victoriously, after Bon's sad demise in 1980, no other band has replaced a lead singer under the spotlight with such success and style, maintaining their indelible identity and purity of musical vision throughout. Keep It Simple Stupid.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/noisepollution/archives/2007/07/ac_dc_top_dollar_aussie_rock_b.html?page=3#comments
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
>Their 1980 Back In Black album alone has sold 42 million copies, making it the biggest-selling album by any band ever.<
No small accomplishment. Considering all the bad taste in the world. |
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| open-g |
Here is a long video of Pantera, The Black Crowes, Metallica, AC/DC and an unknown Russain band performing in Moscow in 1991.
It runs 1:12 hour, and it's got quite some disturbing shots of police and army in it as that was a though time in Moscow '91.
I don't care much for Pantera and Metallica - No, I mean I don't like 'em at all - like in hate!
... but The Black Crowes at around 17:00 min and AC/DC at around 50:00 minutes is great to watch.
The video alowes you skip P. and M.
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-1648306492583625113 |
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| corgi37 |
So how many albums have the Stones sold? They aint even in the hunt, are they? |
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| gimmekeef |
Well after Olivia Newton John packed it in..AC/DC have had it all there own way! |
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| corgi37 |
Technically, she aint Aussie either. Neither are the Bee Gees. |
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| gimmekeef |
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corgi37 wrote:
Technically, she aint Aussie either. Neither are the Bee Gees.
Wow..suddenly I like Australia even more!...... |
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| Fuck! |
ofcourse they are, that's because they are the only australian rock band. lol
anyway, i hate eezydeezy |
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| stonedinaustralia |
quote:
Fuck! wrote:
ofcourse they are, that's because they are the only australian rock band. lol
anyway, i hate eezydeezy
Fuck No Fuck - check out Radio Birdman, The Saints, Nick cave and the Bad Seeds, the birthday party and more!!
corgi by your reasoning if ONJ and the Bee Gees are "technically" not Australian then you'd have to say that neither are AC/DC given the Young brothers are Scots - and Bon and the guy that took his place are/were both english |
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| corgi37 |
Well, yeah, i guess. But, Australia raised them. Angus & Malcolm's older brother, through the Easybeats, producing and writing, helped them. He got his chops here in Oz at Albert Studios. Also, Ac/Dc learnt performance here. Even Men at Work played dingy dives. Say what you like about their music, they were pretty good live. BTW, Colin Hay is Scottish!
Billy Thorpe was a Pom too!
Lotsa great Oz rock to add to your list, SIA. Not that i am huge fan of all, but their contribution must be recognised. Powderfinger, Kings of the Sun, Cold Chisel, Rose Tattoo, INXS, Diviynls, Hard On's, Hoodoo Gurus, Silverchair, Chain, Masters Apprentices, Skyhooks, The Angels. Little River Band, not my cup of tea for sure, but were massive in U.S. (and Glenn Shorrock is a Pom too) and the gay people's fave, Kylie Minogue.
I might add, Brian Cadd did the soundtrack for return of the living dead part 2.
Keith Urban is a Kiwi.
And, we must all, as a nation, stand proud in the knowledge that we were the 1st country to make ABBA #1!!
Also, Mick Jagger is 1/2 Aussie, as we all know.
Lead singer of that annoying band with the song "2 Princes" is from Australia. Cant recall their name, but they opened for the Stones once or twice in 1989.
Flea is Aussie! Melbourne born and bred and he barracks for Collingwood (like our esteemed pal, Daethgod).
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Lead singer of that annoying band with the song "2 Princes" is from Australia. Cant recall their name, but they opened for the Stones once or twice in 1989.
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I think you mean the Spin Doctors.
...and Jet, they were quite good untill they went Beatles. |
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| corgi37 |
Forgot about them. They are from the suburb next to me.
And Wolfmother! Though there are strong rumours, after all of 1 album, they might be breaking up. |
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