Ballbreaker
Sign in to saveBallbreaker is the thirteenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released in 1995 and was re-released in 2005 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
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Ballbreaker is a studio album by the performer AC/DC. It was released on September 26, 1995, through East West Records, Albert Productions, and Epic Records. The work is presented in the English language and is categorized under the hard rock and blues rock genres.
The album contains 11 parts, though iTunes lists 12 tracks. It was produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Fraser. Ballbreaker is characterized as a musical hit. It is available in the distribution formats of compact disc, LP record, compact cassette, and music streaming.
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- Album.name
- Ballbreaker
- Album.type
- studio
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- AC/DC
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- Ballbreaker.jpg
- Album.recorded
- February – May 1995
- Album.studio
- Ocean Way (Los Angeles)
- Album.genre
- Hard rock blues rock
- Album.label
- Albert East West
- Album.producer
- Rick Rubin
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- AC/DC Live
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- 1992
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- Bonfire
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- 1997
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- blues rock
- Producer
- Mike Fraser
- Duration
- 2987
- Performer
- AC/DC
- Record label
- Epic Records
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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- publication date
- 1995-09-26
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- studio album
- has characteristic
- musical hit
- title
- Ballbreaker
- number of parts of this work
- 11
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- Weekly charts
- Year-end charts
- Certifications
- References
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Ballbreaker is the thirteenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released in 1995 and was re-released in 2005 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
==Background== Ballbreaker marked the return of drummer Phil Rudd, who had played with AC/DC from 1975 to 1983. Rudd had left during the Flick of the Switch sessions due to drug problems and his incompatibility with Malcolm Young. According to Arnaud Durieux's book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, Rudd attended AC/DC's show in Auckland in November 1991 and, after a friendly meeting with the band backstage, made an "open-ended pitch" to rejoin if anything changed with the band's current drummer Chris Slade. Durieux reports that the band eventually invited Rudd to rejoin and he accepted in August 1994, much to the chagrin of Slade, who had been recording demos with the band in London. Slade told Rock Hard France in June 2001 that he was so disappointed and disgusted that he did not touch his drum kit for three years. Slade would eventually rejoin the band for their performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony and the 2015 Rock or Bust World Tour following Rudd's legal issues involving illegal drug possession and threatening to kill his former personal assistant, both of which forced him out of the band a second time.
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