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How AC/DC’s 1975 debut shocked Australian culture

By Jo Coghlan, Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England

In February 1975, a gang of scruffy Sydney rockers released their first two albums: High Voltage and TNT. A year later, songs from both records were repackaged into AC/DC’s first international album, also titled High Voltage.

AC/DC’s sound was forged in suburban garages and sticky-carpet pubs, part of Australia’s mid-70s pub rock explosion. The era saw Australian pub rock find its confidence to break from British and…

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