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Title: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: Sibling Chatty on October 28, 2008, 05:00:24 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/27/acdc-music-recession

The Guardian SAID so!!
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Things really must be bad - AC/DC are No 1 again

First Gordon Brown and Mervyn King, the Bank of England's governor, admitted that Britain was on the verge of recession. Then food sales were reported to have seen their biggest fall for 20 years. Last night came final and irrevocable proof that the country is entering tough economic times, unseen since the 80s: AC/DC have returned to the top of the album charts for the first time in 28 years.

Even by the standards of a band whose commercial success is a given - the venerable Australian rockers have shifted more than 80m records since forming 35 years ago (in the midst of the 1973 oil crisis) - the circumstances of their 16th studio album's British success seem striking.

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Short version from OZ:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24557872-2902,00.html

Britain's Highway to Hell
1973 - AC/DC form
Economy: Start of the oil crisis, which saw the price quadruple

1980 - AC/DC release breakthrough album Back In Black
Economy: Inflation in UK reaches 20% and unemployment nears 2 million

1990 - AC/DC score comeback with The Razor's Edge
Economy: Recession in UK imminent

2008: AC/DC top UK album charts
Economy: Biggest world recession in decades looms

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Oh noez. And I though it was skirt length related....

Title: Re: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: anthrobabe on October 28, 2008, 05:48:48 AM

I love them, I love them, I love them!
This is one of the bands that form the soundtrack to my formative years and thus my life.

And I have a 'date' with the blokes from down under on January 28th, 2009--- 4 days after my birthday----
Who needs freaking cake baby!

[youtube=425,350]bX2xbqWtyJU[/youtube]

One hot angel,
One hot devil

yep-- they still got it

Title: Re: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: beagle on October 28, 2008, 07:56:15 AM

Blimey. I remember them from the purloined gramophone in the 6th form common room 30 years ago.

Title: Re: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: Pachyderm on October 28, 2008, 03:37:17 PM

Reminds me of driving round dirt tracks in Africa, music blaring, going faster than was really safe. Ah, the follies of youth...

:'(It was so much more fun back then.

Title: Re: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: Bluenose on October 28, 2008, 10:50:25 PM

This is a real fave...

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Te he he he...

Title: Re: Dammit, it's AC/DC's fault!!
Post by: anthrobabe on November 01, 2008, 09:59:42 AM

Oh Blue what a silly you are....
too funny

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