AC/DC Recognized for Best Hard Rock Performance

Someone really wanted AC/DC to win a Grammy award Sunday night.

The Aussies are pushing nearly four decades together and have sold over 200 million albums worldwide. Their best-selling album 1980’s Back in Black sold 45 million units and was the highest selling album second only to the gloved one himself, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, but never picked up a Grammy award.

Yet Angus Young, his brother Malcolm, Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers each of them, inducted as a band in 2003, were nominated for a Grammy in the Best Hard Rock Performance category.

The band beat out Linkin Park, Nickelback, Alice In Chains and Metallica to take home the award. Their first.

“War Machine” off the 2008 Black Ice album is the single that clinched it for the band. But you know members of the Recording Academy believed AC/DC were long over due when a song that’s a b-side to the single “Rock 'N Roll Train” is nominated and wins. Oversight corrected.

Black Ice, produced by veteran Brendan O’Brien and released exclusively through Wal-Mart and the band’s website was up for Best Rock Album. That award went to Green Day for 21st Century Breakdown.

AC/DC are currently working on the soundtrack to Iron Man 2.