Powerage is the most extreme AC/DC record. And yet, and yet, and yet …Īnd yet there's some germ of truth in what they say. Their Sgt Pepper's? There's no framing device, no sitars, no psychedelic whimsy. Experimental? You'll look long and hard for extended modal electronica interludes, and you won't find any. Truth be told, while I love AC/DC – and Powerage is, I think, by a distance the best of their albums – it's hard not to see that without wondering what on earth Young and Opitz are on about.

That's about the closest we ever got to an experiment.' Mark Opitz, who engineered the album, told the writer Jesse Fink: 'In a way it was AC/DC's Sgt Pepper's.' 'My brother George said: 'Your first album and your second album, these are a lot of songs you've had for years, and you've worked on them and refined on them, so when you hear them you go: That's a band playing that.' And that's what he wanted for Powerage. 'After we'd done Let There Be Rock, Powerage was probably us experimenting a little bit,' Angus Young told me in 2014. It's Keith Richards' favourite AC/DC album when Axl Rose replaced Brian Johnson in the band, two tracks from it – 'Riff Raff' and 'Rock 'N' Roll Damnation' – suddenly appeared in the live setlist it's the one the hardest, corest of hardcore fans always go on about, Even within the AC/DC camp, it appears to have a special status, albeit one that might baffle non-converts. Powerage has come to occupy such a huge place in AC/DC mythology that it's hard to look at it dispassionately.

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