• AC/DC’s has sold 69 million copies of their albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. RIAA ranks the band’s 1980 recording, Back in Black, as the fifth-best-selling album in U.S. history.

• The band continues to dominate sales charts around the world. Their recent release Black Ice was the #1 bestselling rock album in the U.S., Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Argentina, Canada and Spain through fall 2008, and has sold more than one million copies in the U.S. alone. THe band has its own channel—24- 7 AC/DC—on Sirius Satellite radio. 

• Why AC/DC Matters will be published to coincide with the band’s U.S. stadium tour scheduled for summer 2009.

Though AC/DC has been a perennial favorite among millions of fans, selling more than 70 million records in the U.S.—more than the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Aerosmith—critics have dismissed their music, their talent, and their fans. Until now. Finally giving the band it’s due, Why AC/DC Matters is an engaging, fun and pithy look at the group’s cultural importance and how it has influenced a generation of musicians and rock fans around the world.

A fan who has seen the band multiple times, Anthony Bozza provides the double perspective of both music fan and rock critic, offering his own insights as well as those of business insiders, including Tommy Lee, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and other music professionals such as the head of the acclaimed Berklee College of Music who go on record in support of AC/DC’s talent and greatness.

Both a fan guide as well as a thoughtful cultural history, Why AC/DC Matters validates what all those fans have known all along: AC/DC is the greatest rock and roll band of all time.