1001 Albums Summary

A perfect exemplar of a time long gone. Released in the second half of 1979, Highway to Hell was the last album to feature singer Bon Scott before his untimely death. The title track is iconic and the whole album rocks and swings hard while still having some pop and commercial sensibilities. But for 1979, this was still dangerous music for rebel kids dressed in a denim vest uniform, adorned with patches from hard rock and metal bands. AC/DC would rise to new heights with their next album, Back in Black, but Highway to Hell shows them at the pinnacle of their musical creativity, which makes it even more tragic that Bon Scott would die less than a year after it's release. The world will never know what AC/DC could have been like if they continued to be fronted by Scott; but they left us this jam to crank up in his memory.