10 Most Expensive Rock Albums Ever Made
8. For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC (~$1 Million)
Reminder: Everything else on this list from now on cost at least $1 million at the time it was made.
No inflation needed; these numbers are eye-watering on their own.
First up is the successor to one of the best-selling rock albums ever made.
With new singer Brian Johnson on their books, AC/DC had blown everyone away with Back in Black in 1980. One year later, they put out the hotly anticipated sequel, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You).
Though it didn't sell as many as its older brother (then again, did anyone expect it to?), For Those About to Rock etc. etc. still shifted seven million copies and gave the Australian band their first US number one.
Unfortunately, they all hated recording it.
Guitarist Malcolm Young once famous described these sessions as "fannying around", as producer Mutt Lange reportedly spent the first ten days doing nothing but trying to get the perfect snare drum sound.
All these delays caused the cost of the album to explode to near the $1 million mark. Things weren't helped when Lange instructed a portable studio be transported to Paris from London.
Did he not think they had microphones in France?