The day three fans heard Highway to Hell before anyone else.
On May 18, 1979, three friends, Trace, Mark, and Wade, drove 160 kilometers from St. Louis to Springfield, Illinois, to see AC/DC. When they arrived, they found that the show was sold out. Instead of heading home, they decided to hang around the parking lot of the Bel-Air Motel, hoping to at least get a close look at their idols.
Luck was on their side: not only did they run into the band and take photos with them, but they also received passes to get into that night’s concert. While the musicians were signing albums for fans before heading backstage to change, Malcolm Young asked them if they wanted to hear the new album. They were taken aback, not even knowing it existed. “Highway to Hell, we’ve got a tape on the tour bus,” Malcolm told them with a smile.
They were left alone on the tour bus, and there the three of them listened to the album months before its official release in the United States, becoming some of the first people in the world to hear that classic.
Congratulations to Gail Noll, Illinois Law alum, on her recent appointment as an at-large judge in the 7th Judicial Circuit!
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