The Most Expensive Rock Albums Ever Made

Some rock stars over the years have gone waaay overboard budget-wise when putting together new albums...sometimes it was unforseeable reasons, like when it took Def Leppard 3 years to make "Hysteria," because of delays surrounding the horrible accident which resulted in drummer Rick Allen's loss of an arm..."Hysteria" ended up costing roughly $14 million dollars in today's money....then you have just plain excess, as in the case of Guns n Roses' "Chinese Democracy" in 2008....cost overruns, heavily self indulgent band members and endless delays put the price tag in today's dollar value at $20 million...even AC/DC, on the heels of the massive success of
Back in Black," spared no expense on the creation of "For Those About to Rock" in 1981, coming in at $3.5 mil in today's money....here's a bunch more examples of super expensive albums, and the reasons behind the massive cash spent in each's creation: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/most-expensive-albums/