1980
Feb[19] While recording in Britan, Scott and musician friend Alistar Kennear spend the evening at the Music Machine on Camden Town, London, watching groups Protex and the Trendies, while consuming a large amount of alcohol. Kenear drives Scott back to his house in East Dulwich, South London, leaving him asleep in the car.
[20]- Kennear returns to the car to find Scott inconscious, and drives him to nearby King's College Hospital, where he is pronounced dead. The coroner will record a verdict death by misadventure, stating that Scott had "drunk himslef to death".
Mar[1] - Touch To Much reaches UK #29.
Apr- The group having announced Johnson, former lead singer of the UK band Geordie, will replace Scott, beging recording Back In Black at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas.
June[28]- Reissued Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and It's A Long Way To The Top make UK #47 and #55 respectively.
July-After preliminarywarm-up gigs in Belgium and Holland, AC/DC embarks on its Back In Black world tour in the US, a trek which will take in Europe, Australia(wish they have not returned to since 1977) and first visit to Japan.
[5]- Similarly reiussed High Voltage (live version) makes US #48.
[19] Last of four chart-eissued singles
Whole Lotta Rosie reaches UK #36.]
Aug[9]- Lange-produced Back In Black tops the UK chart, subsequently regarded as a critical and commercial career peak.
Sept[7]- You Shook Me All Night Long makes UK # 38.
Oct[19]- The group begins a 20-date UK tour at the Colston Hall, Bristol, Avon ending Novermeber 12th, the last of three dates at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
Nov[8]- You Shook Me All Night Long makes US # 35- their first US top 40.
Dec[13] Rock n' Roll Aint Noise Pollution reaches UK #15.
[20] Back In Black hits US #4.
1981
Feb[21]- Back In Black makes US # 37.
May[23]- Belatedly issiued in the US, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap hits #3, as High Voltage heads to US #146.
Aug[22]- AC/DC headlines the "Monsters Of Rock" festival at Castle Donington, Leics., before a crowd of 65,000.
Dec[5]- For Those About To Rock ( We Salut You) hits UK #3.
[26] - For Those About To Rock (We Salut You) hits US chart.
1982
Feb[20]- The extracted Let's Get It Up reaches UK #13 and US #44.
July[10] For Those About To Rock (We Salut You) reaches UK #15.
1983
Aug- Rudd leaves, exhausted by touring, and is replaced by ex-Tyran A to Z drummer Simon Wright, who like Williams, has reponded ro an ad in Sounds.
Spet[3]- Flick Of The Switch hits UK #4 and reaches US #15.
Oct[22]- Guns For Hire peaks US #84.
Nov[5]- Guns For Hire makes UK at #37.
1984
Jan[25]- Flick Of The Switch is certified gold by the RIAA.
Aug[11]- Nervouse Shakedown reaches UK #35.
[18]- AC/DC headlines the "Monsters Of Rock" festival at Castle Donington for the second time, before a crowd of 65,000, as its mini-album 74' Jailbreak reprising tracks in Austrlia almost decade earlier, makes US #76.
1985
Jan[19]- The group takes part in the "Rock In Rio" festival at Barra da Tijunca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, headlining a bill featuring Ozzy Osbourne, the Scorpions and Whitesnake, before an estimated crow of 342,000.
Jule[13]- Fly On The Wall hits UK #7.
[20]- Danger makes UK #48.
Aug[29]- Fly On The Wall is certified gold by the RIAA.
Sept[7] Fly On The Wall reaches #32 in the US, as the band undertakesits correspondingly-named tour of the US.
1986
Jan[16-17]- The group performs at Wembley Arena, Wembley, during the European leg of the "Fly On The Wall" tour.
[25]- Shake Your Foundation reaches UK #24.
May[31]- Who Made Who reacches #16 in the UK.
June[7]- Who Made Who, containing old tracks and three new AC/DC songs used on the soundtrack to the Stephne King movie "Maximum Overdrive", reaches UK311 and makes US #33.
Aug[30]- Reissued You Shook Me All Night Long makes UK #46.
