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Highway to Hell (Autopista al Infierno) es el sexto álbum de estudio de la banda de hard rock australiana AC/DC que salió a la venta en 1979. También es el quinto álbum de estudio internacional de la banda y todas sus canciones fueron escritas por Angus Young, Malcolm Young, y Bon Scott.
Se consideró el álbum más popular de la banda hasta el momento, y ayudó a incrementar la popularidad de ésta considerablemente, posicionándola para el éxito de su álbum Back In Black el año siguiente. Fue el último álbum grabado con el vocalista Bon Scott antes de que este muriese en febrero de 1980.
Highway To Hell fue el primer álbum de AC/DC que no fue producido por Harry Vanda y George Young.
En Australia, salió a la venta con una cubierta ligeramente diferente. A diferencia de la internacional, tenía llamas en la guitarra. En Alemania del Este se cambiaron los diseños de las carátulas debido a un descontento de las autoridades ya que la imagen de la portada era las de los miembros de la banda envueltos en llamas.
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Of course, Highway to Hell is the final album AC/DC recorded with Bon Scott, the lead singer who provided the group with a fair share of its signature sleaze. Just months after its release, Scott literally partied himself to death (the official cause cited as acute alcohol poisoning) after a night of drinking, a rock & roll fatality that took no imagination to predict. In light of his passing, it's hard not to see Highway to Hell as a last testament of sorts, being that it was his last work and all, and if Scott was going to go out in a blaze of glory, this certainly was the way to do it. This is a veritable rogue's gallery of deviance, from cheerfully clumsy sex talk and drinking anthems to general outlandish behavior. It's tempting to say that Scott might have been prescient about his end -- or to see the title track as ominous in the wake of his death -- trying to spill it all out on paper, but it's more accurate to say that the ride had just gotten very fast and very wild for AC/DC, and he was simply flying high. After all, it wasn't just Scott who reached a new peak on Highway to Hell; so did the Young brothers, crafting their monster riffs into full-fledged, undeniable songs. This is their best set of songs yet, from the incessant, intoxicating boogie of "Girls Got Rhythm" to "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)." Some of the credit should also go to Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who gives the album a precision and magnitude that the Vanda & Young LPs lacked in their grimy charm. Filtered through Mutt's mixing board, AC/DC has never sounded so enormous, and they've never had such great songs, and they had never delivered an album as singularly bone-crunching or classic as this until now.
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