AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal, but the band themselves call it simply “rock and roll“.
AC/DC have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 75 million albums in the United States, making them the ninth-highest-selling artist in the United States and the 16th-best-selling artist worldwide.
Let There Be Rock is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band, AC/DC. It was the band’s third studio album released internationally and the fourth to be released in Australia. It was also the last AC/DC album to feature Mark Evans on bass. It was originally released on 21 March 1977 in Australia on the Albert Productions label.
The Australian cover features the fingers of guitarist Chris Turner, from Australian band Buffalo. “There was a bloke called Colin Stead, who was in Buffalo for about ten minutes,” Turner recalled. “He was also the centrefold photographer for Playboy. He phoned me up and said he was doing the album cover for Let There Be Rock, but AC/DC were out of town, so could I help out? He wanted a flash guitar run up and down the neck. From the Classic Rock Magazine, Issue 170, Angus said, ‘He’s got fat fingers, hasn’t he?'”.
This first pressing has a kangaroo emblem on the label and more harder cardboard sleeve. Early represses have a yellow on navy label with no kangaroo, however, this version has a blue kangaroo error. The blue kangaroo emblem was printed on the side 2 label but omitted from the side 1 label making it a rare piece of AC/DC memorabilia. It is unknown how many of these “Blue Roo” error pressings which were produced way back in 1977.
