Your birth year
2006
Highway to Hell
1979AC/DC
Highway to Hell is 27 years older than you
It's from 1979, before you were born.
- Artist
- AC/DC
- Genre
- Hard rock
- Released
- 1979
- Note
- the band's commercial breakthrough
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About
As of 2026, it's 47 years old.
Highway to Hell announced AC/DC's arrival as hard-rock royalty with a title that scandalized worried parents and a riff that delighted everyone else. It was the band's breakthrough — and became bittersweetly definitive when frontman Bon Scott died shortly after, making it his final statement with the group.
Loud, swaggering, and built on one of rock's most instantly recognizable riffs, it set the stage for the band's even bigger triumph the following year.
Raucous, riff-driven, and iconic, Highway to Hell is the album that made AC/DC superstars and gave hard rock one of its most enduring anthems.
