Back In Black Cary NC

Back In Black

AC/DC

Atlantic Records, 1980

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 10/19/1997

Do you remember your first time?

No, no, I'm not talking about that... do you remember the first time you heard one of yourfavorite albums of all time?

For me, I think it was in 1983 or 1984 - I was at "Duke"Williams' house celebrating some holiday with his family and mine.He popped AC/DC's 1980 classic Back In Black into his tape deck, pushed play... and changedmy life forever. (I repaid the favor last year, when I took him tosee AC/DC at the United Center.)

You can argue with me all you want about how AC/DC is athree-chord loud boogie band, purveyors of the cock-rock style I'veslammed dozens of other bands for on these pages. But I still love Back In Black, no matter how overplayed it's gotten on rockradio.