If You Want Blood You've Got It
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| Live album by AC/DC | ||||
| Released | 13 October 1978 (Europe) 21 November 1978 (North America) 27 November 1978 (Australia & New Zealand) |
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| Recorded | 30 April 1978 at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 52:42 | |||
| Label | Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Harry Vanda, George Young | |||
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If You Want Blood You've Got it is the first live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, originally released in the UK and Europe on 13 October 1978, in the US on 21 November 1978, and in Australia on 27 November 1978. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott. The album was re-released in 1994 on Atco Records and in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
The album was released a mere six months after the band's previous studio album Powerage. Originally, a greatest hits package had been in the works called 12 of the Best but the project was scrapped in favor of a live album. It was recorded during the 1978 Powerage tour and contains songs from T.N.T., Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, and Powerage. It is the last Bon Scott-era AC/DC album produced by Harry Vanda and George Young, who also produced the band's first five studio releases. In his 1994 Bon Scott memoir Highway to Hell, author Clinton Walker observes, "Live albums, which tended to be double or triple sets in which songs short in their studio versions were stretched out into extended tedium, were for some reason popular in the seventies. If You Want Blood reversed this tradition...it boasted a blunt ten tracks and, allowing nothing extraneous, got straight to the point, that being raging AC/DC rock and roll."
AC/DC's concert at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland on 30 April 1978 was used for the live tracks (it has never been confirmed if any other concert tracks from this tour are used also) that appeared on the album, as it can be clearly heard during "The Jack" Scott exclaiming "Any virgins in Glasgow?" as proof of some songs concert location. This concert will also be remembered for the encore when AC/DC came back on stage dressed in the Scottish Football strip, paying homage to Scott's and the Young brothers' homeland. A song with the same title of "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" appeared on the next album, and the bands US album charts breakthrough, Highway to Hell. It was featured in the 2011 horror film Final Destination, the third time they had tracks as part of a motion picture soundtrack; Stephen King's motion picture adaptation Maximum Overdrive official soundtrack Who Made Who and the soundtrack album Iron Man 2 for the movie of the same name.
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