“Shake a Leg” by AC/DC

"Shake a Leg" comes off Back in Black, the seventh AC/DC album, which hit the racks on July 25, 1980, only months after Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning following a night out in London. The survivors weighed calling it quits, then drafted Brian Johnson, late of Geordie, and he wrote this one with the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, the same trio that wrote the whole record.

Cut in the Bahamas across seven weeks that spring, with Robert John "Mutt" Lange producing and Tony Platt engineering, it's the new lineup at full tilt: Johnson hollering up front, the Young brothers on guitars, Cliff Williams on bass and Phil Rudd on drums. Brad Samuelsohn gets the mix credit, the album was mixed at Electric Lady Studios in New York, and its all-black cover stood as a mark of mourning for Scott.

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