G'day 80's Fans! Its time now to present
#26 of
Top 100 80's Dance Hits Countdown, and the song is....wait for it.....
Shake Your Foundations by Australian hard-rock-legends
ACDC. It was about time that
ACDC appeared on the list, and none to late either as this song is one of my
ACDC favorites of all time. Now, for some background
ACDC...They come from Sydney, Australia and it all started there for them in 1973 when brothers Malcolm and Angus Young formed the band. In fact these 2 brothers were actually born in Glasgow, Scotland before their family moved to Sydney in 1963. A 3rd brother (George Young) was the first musician in the family as he learned to play guitar and joined up with
The Easybeats, who were a successful Aussie band in the 1960's. According to their
Wikipedia page, their sister Margaret Young gave them the idea of naming their band
ACDC after noting having seeing the AC/DC symbol on a sewing machine. In 1974 the band was joined by lead vocalist
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott, who would lead the band to super-stardom in Australia and internationally. After Bon Scott died in 1980, he was replaced by Brian Johnson, who is the lead vocalist of the band to this day. As of 2010, ACDC sold more than 200 million records worldwide, and somewhere around 71 million in the USA alone.
Back in Black (their most successful album from 1980) is estimated to have sold 49 million units worldwide making it
highest-selling album by any band, and making it the second highest selling album in history behind the Michael Jackson's 1982
Thriller album which holds the throne at #1.
Shake Your Foundations was released in 1985 on
ACDC's 10th studio album titled
Fly On the Wall. In 1986 the song was remixed by Harry Vanda and George Young and that version was released on the
Who Made Who album, and then featured on the film soundtrack for Stephen King's classic action-horror film
Maximum Overdrive (which I would highly recommend watching even just for the
ACDC songs). And there was #26!
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