DON'T NEED REASON
DON'T NEED RHYME
AIN'T NOTHING THAT
I'D RATHER DO
GOIN' DOWN
PARTY TIME
MY FRIENDS ARE
GONNA BE THERE TOO
Highway to Hell
is the
sixth studio album
by Australian
hard rock band
AC/DC
released on
July 27th 1979.
It is the first of
three albums
produced by
Robert John "Mutt" Lange,
and is the last album
featuring
lead singer
Bon Scott,
who died
on
February 19th 1980.
Background
By 1978,
AC/DC
had released
five albums
internationally
and had toured
Australia
and
Europe
extensively.
In 1977,
they landed in
America and,
with virtually
no radio support,
began to amass
a live following.
The band's most
recent album,
the
live
If You Want Blood,
had reached
number 13
in the United Kingdom,
and the two albums
previous to that,
1977's
Let There Be Rock
and 1978's
Powerage,
had seen the band
find their raging,
blues-based
hard rock sound.
Although the
American branch
of Atlantic Records
had rejected the group's
1976 LP
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,
it now believed the band
was poised to strike
it big in the States
if only they would
work with a producer
who could give them
a radio-friendly sound.
Since their
1975 Australian debut
High Voltage,
all of
AC/DC's albums
had been produced by
George Young
and
Harry Vanda.
According to the book
AC/DC:
Maximum Rock & Roll,
the band was not
enthusiastic
about the idea,
especially guitarists
Angus Young
and
Malcolm Young,
who felt a
strong sense of loyalty
to their older brother
George
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