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Powerage is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band’s fourth studio album released internationally and the fifth to be released in Australia. It was the first AC/DC album to feature Cliff Williams on bass, and it was also the first AC/DC album not to have a title track (aside from the Australia-only High Voltage album). Although Powerage might be the band’s least successful internationally released album from the Bon Scott era, the LP is highly respected – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has stated that Powerage is his favorite AC/DC record – and remained a favorite of Malcolm Young, who was quoted in AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: “I know a lot of people respect it. A lot of real rock and roll AC/DC fans, the real pure rock and roll guys. I think that’s the most under-rated album of them all.” Another often overlooked aspect of the record is the high quality of Bon Scott’s lyrics, with biographer Clinton Walker writing in his 1994 Scott memoir Highway to Hell, “‘Gimme a Bullet’ was perhaps Bon’s most accomplished piece of writing to date, in which his penchant for hardcase metaphors finds even more genuine pathos and humour than it had before.”
