High Voltage is the debut studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 17 February, 1975. Six of the album's eight songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. "Soul Stripper" was written by Young & Young, and "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a cover version of a Big Joe Williams song.
It was originally released on Albert Productions in Australia, and has never been reissued by another label in this format. A High Vo...
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High Voltage is the debut studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 17 February, 1975. Six of the album's eight songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. "Soul Stripper" was written by Young & Young, and "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a cover version of a Big Joe Williams song.
It was originally released on Albert Productions in Australia, and has never been reissued by another label in this format. A High Voltage album with a different tracklisting and cover was released internationally on Atlantic Records in 1976.
AC/DC was still developing its sound when High Voltage was recorded in November 1974, and Scott and the Young brothers were backed by a different rhythm section than the Mark Evans/Phil Rudd combination featured on their next three full-length studio recordings. Instead Angus' older brother George Young played bass and produced the record with Harry Vanda, with drum duties handled by Tony Currenti.
High Voltage led to the first of many...
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