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In December 1975, Atlantic Records' UK head Phil Carson signed AC/DC to a worldwide deal. The group's first two albums, High Voltage and the harder driving T.N.T., had been hits in their native Australia – the single "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" peaked at #5 – and now plans were made for the band to tour England in 1976.
Brothers Angus (lead guitar) and Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar) formed AC/DC in 1973. [3] [4] The band released two albums in Australasia before issuing their first international album, High Voltage in 1976; the Youngs had been joined by vocalist Bon Scott, bass guitarist Mark Evans and drummer Phil Rudd.
High Voltage is the debut studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released only in Australia and New Zealand, on 17 February 1975. Their first international release in 1976 would also be named High Voltage, though with a radically different track list.
The first AC/DC album to have worldwide distribution was a 1976 combination of tracks taken from the High Voltage and T.N.T. LPs. [7] Also titled High Voltage, it was released through Atlantic in May 1976, [7] eventually going on to sell over three million copies in the US by 2005. [43]
The album is a follow-up to their highly successful album Back in Black. For Those About to Rock has sold over four million copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. until the release of Black Ice in October 2008. In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone magazine declared
In November 2020, AC/DC released a new album - Power Up - with Johnson on vocals. [ 27 ] On 7 October 2023, Johnson made a triumphant return to the stage with AC/DC at the Power Trip festival, the bands first show since 2016, when they completed the Rock or Bust World Tour with Axl Rose filling in for Johnson.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers AC/DC will kick off their first U.S. tour in nine years — and possibly the band’s final tour ever — when they headline U.S. Bank Stadium on April 10. Tickets ...
Powerage is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 5 May 1978 in the United Kingdom and 20 May 1978 in the United States.This was the band's first album to feature Cliff Williams on bass guitar, and it was also the first AC/DC album not to have a title track (aside from the Australia-only High Voltage album) and the first worldwide not to be released with a ...
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