One of the interesting little bits of trivia about the record, "High Voltage' is that it was not on the album called, "High Voltage".

I remember suggesting to George and Harry, and the band, that we call the first AC/DC album, "High Voltage". Which we did. The band really liked the title, so they wrote a song by that name. But by the time they had recorded it, we had the album in production in Australia and had already gone gold, and were on the way to going platinum.

But we were two singles into the album and didn't feel like we had a third, and George and Harry were keen to get High Voltage out, because it really rocked and sounded so fresh. Michael Browning, the band's manager, wanted the song out too, because the band were playing it live and it was going down a storm.

So we took what I believe is an unprecedented step. We released a single with the same title as an album, without the single being on the album of the same name. No one in their right mind would do that today.

And what happened was wonderful.

The album had done about 75 or 80 thousand copies in Australia at the time we put the single out. It flew up the charts and helped drive album sales of the album of the same name, without the single on it, to over 120,000 copies. (I remember it like yesterday!) And no one complained!

In fact when the next album came out - I think it was "Dirty Deeds..." which did feature the single, that album took off at a fantastic rate....

I think it is all about the power of doing what feels right at the time. And of course having a hot band helps!
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