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A envious look over the big pond: On Thursday (April 10, 2025), AC/DC started their 2025 tour in Minneapolis under the album motto “Power Up”. Angus Young, Brian Johnson and colleagues performed 21 songs as usual.
AC/DC toured in the United States for the first time since 2016. A lot had happened since then. Malcom Young, rhythm guitarist of the band, died. Brian Johnson had to check out due to hearing problems – Axl Rose from Guns N ‘Roses took over the position on the microphone.
In addition to the returnee Johnson, the band currently includes Young-Neffe Stevie Young, drummer Matt Laugh and bass player Chris Chaney.
AC/DC Setlist in Minneapolis – April 10, 2025
- 1. “If you want Blood (You’ve got it)”
- 2. “Back in Black”
- 3. “Demon Fire”
- 4. “Shot Down in Flames”
- 5. “Thunderstruck”
- 6. “Have a drink on me”
- 7. “Hells Bells”
- 8. “Shot in the Dark”
- 9. “Stiff Upper Lip”
- 10. “Highway to Hell”
- 11. “Shoot to Thrill”
- 12. “Sin City”
- 13. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Train”
- 14. “Dirty deeds done dirt cheap”
- 15. “High Voltage”
- 16. “Riff Raff”
- 17. “You shook me all night long”
- 18. “Whole Lotta Rosie”
- 19. “Let there be rock”
- 20. “TNT”
- 21. “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)”
AC/DC: Angus Young on the Satanist Controvers around “Highway to Hell”
In conversation with “Guitar World”in which the guitarist also spoke about the death of Bon Scott, as well as the strengths of his successor Brian Johnson, Angus Young was also asked about the debate about “Highway to Hell”.
Especially in the United States, the title and the entire metaphor of songs in 1979 provoked the outrage of the “religious majority” of America. The famous cover, on which Young was depicted with devil horns and a devil’s tail, also triggered intensive controversy.
Suddenly spectators appeared with Bible verses
“When we called the album ‘Highway to Hell’, the American record company immediately panicked”. So the 65-year-old today. “With religious things, I thought, be it everywhere in Australia. There they are called ‘Bible-Thumpers’. And it is a limited species. Very limited! The Christianity was never a popular movement. It seems to be the punishment background! But in America there were people who had appeared at our concerts with bed sheets and wrote on posters.”
There was also the rumor that Satanic messages would be obtained if “Highway to Hell” were played backwards. For Angus Young an madness. “Damned shit. Why play backwards? Everything is said straightforward. ‘Highway to Hell!’.
“Highway to Hell” is one of the best-selling albums of hard rock music. And brought AC/DC the breakthrough in the USA. The band, which were not produced for the first time by Vanda/Young, deliver, as Gunther Reinhardt wrote in the Rolling Stone, an amazing party full of sex, drug and rock’n’roll, dirty, scratched, shabby, sexy, ironic. And the legacy of the Bon Scott, which should die one year after the recordings. With the “Mark of the Ork” greeting “Na-Nu Na-Nu”, he says goodbye when the album ends with “Night Prowler”.
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The title song has long since become a classic hymn. Which is also liked by people who would never hear another song by the Australians.