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Artist Icon Powerage (1978)
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Powerage es el quinto álbum de estudio de la banda de hard rock australiana AC/DC, publicado en Mayo de 1978. Es también el cuarto álbum de estudio internacional del grupo. Todas las canciones están compuestas por Angus Young, Malcolm Young y Bon Scott.

Powerage es el primer álbum de AC/DC que fue publicado casi simultáneamente en los mercados australianos e internacionales y el primero que utiliza la misma cubierta para ambos, es también la primera vez que tiene las mismas canciones en todas las versiones con la excepción de los vinilos europeos que incluían "Cold Hearted Man," una canción que no se ha publicado oficialmente en ningún otro álbum de AC/DC, algunos también omitían la canción "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation."

En Powerage debuta el bajista Cliff Williams, quien se mantiene en la banda hasta el día de hoy. Muchos fans consideran que Williams, los hermanos Young y el batería Phil Rudd constituyen la formación clásica de AC/DC. Es el primer álbum de AC/DC coproducido por Angus Young, en estudio producido por Harry Vanda y George Young. El álbum fue publicado de nuevo en 2003 como parte de la serie de Remasters del grupo.

El álbum llegó al #133 en Billboard's Pop Albums en Estados unidos, eventualmente siendo certificado platino.
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Powerage was a first in the sense that it debuted bassist Cliff Williams, but it really is more of a final curtain to the band's early years. It would be the last produced by Vanda & Young, the legendary Australian production team who also helmed hits by the Easybeats, and it was the last before AC/DC became superstars. As such, it's perhaps the most overlooked of their '70s records, also because, frankly, it is the most uneven of them. Not that it's a bad record -- far from it, actually. There are a few genuine classics here, most notably "Down Payment Blues" and "Up to My Neck in You," and there's a real appeal in how Bon Scott's gutter poems of excess are reaching a mythic level; there's a real sense that he truly does believe that rock & roll leads straight to hell on "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation." But overall, the record is just a bit too wobbly, one where the parts don't add up to a record as hard and addictive as before -- but there's still plenty worth hearing here.


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