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Brian Johnson
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English singer, songwriter and television show host of car shows
OverviewAI-generated
Brian Francis Johnson is a British male singer, songwriter, and television presenter. Born on October 5, 1947, in Dunston, he has been a member of the bands AC/DC and Geordie. His musical career began in 1971, and he performs in genres including rock, hard rock, blues rock, and rock and roll. Johnson possesses a baritone and countertenor voice and plays the tambourine. He is associated with the record label EMI and has worked in the acting department.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 196
Top works
- Journey of Jealousy to Becoming Whole
- Active Listening
- Walking the Corbetts Vol 1 South of the Great Glen
- Ways to action
- Environmental performance of consulting organizations in development aid
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Dunston, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Brian Francis Johnson (born 5 October 1947) is an English singer and songwriter. In 1980, after the death of Bon Scott, he became the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC. He and the rest of the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. In March 2016, he stepped down from touring on the Rock or Bust World Tour due to hearing problems. He stated in an interview…
Known for
- A Carpool Karaoke Christmas — Self2024
- Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends — Self - Host2024
- AC/DC : Forever Young — Self (archive footage)2023
- Rock: the origin — Self (archive footage)2023
- Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert — Self2022
- What Drives Us — Self2021
- AC/DC: The Story of Back in Black — Self2020
- Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road — Self2017
- The Grand Tour — Self2016
- Blood + Thunder: The Sound of Alberts — Self2015
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 63,946
- Total plays
- 813,320
Tags
There are two Brian Johnsons: One is the singer of the hard rock band AC/DC There's another Brian Johnson that leads the Worship with his wife Jenn in Bethel Redding, California. Brian Johnson (born October 5, 1947 in Dunston, Gateshead, England) is a singer best known as the front-man for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He currently lives in Sarasota, Florida, USA. Johnson joined AC/DC in 1980, after the death of band's former lead singer Bon Scott. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bri
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,916x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,528x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,297x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,416x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-10-05 ) 5 October 1947 (age 78) , Dunston , County Durham, England
- Genres
- Hard rock rock and roll blues rock glam rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Member of
- AC/DC
- Formerly of
- Geordie
- Website
- brianjohnsonracing .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Brian Johnson (born 5 October 1947) is an English singer and songwriter. He is the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC, taking over the role in 1980 after the death of Bon Scott.
Johnson is one of the founding members of the rock band Geordie, which was formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1971. After several hit singles, including the UK Top 10 hit "All Because of You" (1973), the band split in 1978. Following the death of Bon Scott on 19 February 1980, Johnson was asked to audition for AC/DC, whose guitarists and founders Angus and Malcolm Young remembered when Scott had been impressed with Johnson as Geordie's frontman. Johnson's first album with AC/DC, Back in Black, became the second-best-selling album of all time, according to most estimates. The Guardian ranked the successful transition to Johnson at No. 36 on their list of 50 key events in rock-music history.
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