Let There Be Rock
Occupation
- Song: Bon Scott
- Lead Guitar: Angus Young
- Rhythm Guitar: Malcolm Young
- Bass: Mark Evans
- Drums: Phil Rudd
Let There Be Rock (English for "Let there be Rock" ) is the fourth Australian and third international studio album by Australian hard rock band AC / DC. The Australian version was released in March 1977 on the label Albert Productions. The publication of the international album took place on June 23 of the year on Atlantic Records.
Background
As with the previous album, the title lists of Australian and international version of Let There Be Rock are slightly different. For the international version of the piece was Crabsody in Blue replaced by a shortened version of the song Problem Child, which had already been included on Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. At the European LP version Crabsody was included in Blue even more, from the first CD version but it fell away and only appeared in Australia on CD until 2009 was finally represented at Backtracks.
The sound of the album is dominated by the typical AC / DC Hard Rock, showing the clear influence of blues and rock 'n ' roll. Let There Be Rock is the last album with bassist Mark Evans.
In 1980, a concert film entitled Let There Be Rock Bon Scott's death was shortly after: The Movie published. This recording, however, was not recorded during the tour for this album, but to Highway to Hell.
Title list
Occupation
- Song: Bon Scott
- Lead Guitar: Angus Young
- Rhythm Guitar: Malcolm Young
- Bass: Mark Evans
- Drums: Phil Rudd
Australian version
International version
Reception
Let There Be Rock was the first album of AC / DC, which managed a foothold in the U.S. Billboard album charts ( the previous album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap appeared there only in 1981 ), albeit only on place 154 Until today it achievement in the USA with double - platinum, as it has sold to date, over two million times there. In the UK it came to number 17, the single Whole Lotta Rosie is one of the most famous pieces of tape and made his 1980 entry into the UK Top 40 at number 36
Let There Be Rock is now considered one of the best albums of the group. In Rockhard the album under the motto "30 Years Let There Be Rock" 2007, a cover story was dedicated, author Götz Kühnemund awarded in his review a perfect score (10 points ) to the classics and ruled: "With Let There Be Rock laid AC / DC curing technically a tooth to build and could return to the class of the debut. With Whole Lotta Rosie, Hell Is not a Bad Place to Be, Bad Boy Boogie, and the title song are four of the greatest AC / DC hits and with Go Down, Dog Eat Dog, Overdose and the already published on Dirty Deeds Problem Child four other classics represented. A disc without a single weak sound! "In 2007 Magazine published selbiges a list of the best rock and metal albums of all time. In the list comprehensive 500 albums Let There Be Rock debuted at number 48 and was the fourth -best- platzierteste album of the group, which led the list with Back in Black.