According to The Pulse Of Radio, AC/DC was in danger of being dropped from their label, Atlantic Records, just prior to the release of the band’s 1977 album “Let There Be Rock”. Phil Carson, the exec who got AC/DCsigned to the label, revealed to Classic Rock magazine, “They’d delivered [1976’s] ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, which I thought was pretty good. But the Atlantic A&R department [in the U.S.] said…
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AC/DC Was Almost Dropped By Record Company In 1977
March 29, 2012
According to The Pulse Of Radio, AC/DC was in danger of being dropped from their label, Atlantic Records, just prior to the release of the band’s 1977 album “Let There Be Rock”. Phil Carson, the exec who got AC/DCsigned to the label, revealed to Classic Rock magazine, “They’d delivered [1976’s] ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, which I thought was pretty good. But the Atlantic A&R department [in the U.S.] said…
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