AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Primary Artist
AC/DC
Album Title
Highway to Hell
Release Date
August, 1979 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Of course, Highway To Hell is the final album Ac/dc recorded with Bon Scott, the lead singer who provided the group with a fair share of its signature sleaze. Just months after its release, Scott literally partied himself to death, dying of alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking, a rock & roll fatality that took no imagination to predict. In light of his passing, it's hard not to see Highway To Hell as a last testament of sorts, being that it was his last work and all, and if Scott was going to go out in a blaze of glory, this certainly was the way to do it. Read More