{"id":29154,"date":"2024-03-29T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-29-1980-malcom-young-invites-brian-johnson-to-join-ac-dc\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:03:20","slug":"on-this-day-march-29-1980-malcom-young-invites-brian-johnson-to-join-ac-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-29-1980-malcom-young-invites-brian-johnson-to-join-ac-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 29, 1980: Malcom Young invites Brian Johnson to join AC\/DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-29\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, March 29, 1980 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Malcolm Young\u00a0<\/strong>called\u00a0<strong>Brian Johnson<\/strong>, former singer of the band\u00a0<strong>Geordie<\/strong>, and invited him to replace their late frontman,\u00a0<strong>Bon Scott<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band released their first album with Johnson,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Back In Black<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, in July 1980. It went on to become one of the biggest albums in music history, selling more than 25 million copies in the U.S. alone, although it never reached number one in the U.S. It featured future AC\/DC classics \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long,\u201d \u201cHells Bells\u201d and the title track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Johnson, along with the rest of AC\/DC, went on to be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He temporarily stepped away from the band in 2016 due to hearing problems but rejoined in 2018 for their album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Power Up<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was released in 2020.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AC\/DC is set to launch their new Power Up tour in Europe with a two-night stand in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, May 17 and 21. So far, no U.S. dates have been announced. A complete schedule can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acdc.com\/ac-dc-power-up-tour-europe-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>acdc.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 29, 1980 &#8230; AC\/DC\u2019s\u00a0Malcolm Young\u00a0called\u00a0Brian Johnson, former singer of the band\u00a0Geordie, and invited him to replace their late frontman,\u00a0Bon Scott. The band released their first album with Johnson,\u00a0Back In Black, in July 1980. It went on to become one of the biggest albums in music history,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-29-1980-malcom-young-invites-brian-johnson-to-join-ac-dc\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}