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AC DC´s Highway To Hell
Joe Bonomo
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Description for AC DC´s Highway To Hell
Paperback. A brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 bw illustration. BIC Classification: AVGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 121 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
This is a brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Released in 1979, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on "Highway ... Read more
This is a brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Released in 1979, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on "Highway ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
33 1/3
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441190284
SKU
V9781441190284
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Ref
99-50
About Joe Bonomo
Joe Bonomo teaches in the English Department of Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band (Continuum 2007), and Installations (Penguin), a collection of prose poems. His personal essays and prose poems have appeared in numerous literary journals.
Reviews for AC DC´s Highway To Hell
Bonomo brings a fresh American perspective on the AC/DC story by writing from the point of view of a young man growing up in Wheaton, Maryland, hearing this landmark album from these wild colonial boys for the first time.
Jesse Fink
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Jesse Fink
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