For Those About to Rock We Salute You

This article is about the album by AC/DC. For the title track, see For Those About to Rock (We Salute You). For the concert video, see For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow.

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
Studio album by
AC/DC
Released20 November 1981 (1981-11-20)[1]
RecordedMay – September 1981
Studio
  • Family (Paris)
  • H.I.S. (Paris)
GenreHard rock
Length40:10
Label
ProducerRobert John "Mutt" Lange
AC/DC chronology
Back in Black
(1980) 		For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
(1981) 		Flick of the Switch
(1983)
Singles from For Those About to Rock We Salute You
  1. "Let's Get It Up"
    Released: January 1982[2]
  2. "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
    Released: June 1982

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (shortened to For Those About to Rock on its cover) is the eighth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released on 20 November 1981 in the United States and on 27 November 1981 in the United Kingdom.[3]

The album is a follow-up to their highly successful album Back in Black. For Those About to Rock has sold over four million copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. until the release of Black Ice in October 2008. In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone magazine declared it to be their best album. In Australia, the album peaked at No. 3 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.[4]

The album, recorded in Paris, was the third and final AC/DC collaboration with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.

  1. ^ @acdc (12 November 2021). ""For Those About To Rock" release date info" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780862415419.
  3. ^ "BPI".
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.