AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (Gold) LP

To honor AC/DC’s 50-year reign as the world’s greatest rock and roll band, Columbia & Sony Legacy proudly announce that the band’s catalog will be available as colored vinyl LPs. Each of these LP's comes with an album-specific 12” x 12” print featuring new AC/DC 50 artwork, suitable for framing. Another vinyl drop will follow later in the year.

Initially released in Australia in March 1977, a modified international version featuring the first appearance of the iconic AC/DC logo was unleashed that Summer. It’s said that while recording the solo on the title track, Angus’s amp overheated and caught fire!

Let There Be Rock kicks up the energy level a notch from its predecessor, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, making for a bracing hard rock record of blasting guitar and basic, aggressive grooves. While slightly more metallic, AC/DC's sound was still bluesier than it would be by the time of the band's commercial breakthrough. Appealing in spite of himself, Bon Scott delivers his leering double entendres and humorous asides with typical panache, while the Young brothers' guitars bite, kick, and scratch behind him. AC/DC classics on hand include 'Problem Child,' 'Whole Lotta Rosie,' and 'Bad Boy Boogie.'