{"id":29997,"date":"2024-07-25T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-25-1980-ac-dc-releases-back-in-black\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-july-25-1980-ac-dc-releases-back-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-25-1980-ac-dc-releases-back-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 25, 1980: AC\/DC releases &#8216;Back in Black&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-25\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 25, 1980 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>AC\/DC\u00a0<\/strong>released their seventh studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Back in Black<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was their first album following the death of singer\u00a0<strong>Bon Scott<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album featured new lead singer\u00a0<strong>Brian Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>and contained such future AC\/DC classics as the title track, \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long\u201d and \u201cHells Bells.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Back in Black\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">was a massive hit for the Aussie rockers, becoming one of the bestselling albums of all time. It sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide and as of July 2024 was certified 26-times Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AC\/DC\u00a0is currently on their Power Up tour in Europe and\u00a0is scheduled to play Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acdc.com\/tour\/\" 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, July 25, 1980 &#8230; AC\/DC\u00a0released their seventh studio album,\u00a0Back in Black, which was their first album following the death of singer\u00a0Bon Scott. The album featured new lead singer\u00a0Brian Johnson\u00a0and contained such future AC\/DC classics as the title track, \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long\u201d and \u201cHells Bells.\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-25-1980-ac-dc-releases-back-in-black\/\">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\/29997"}],"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=29997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}