AC/DC's "Powerage" & "Highway to Hell" photo session, December 1977

updated Jan 02 2024

 AC/DC's Powerage & Highway to Hell photo session, December 1977

Only one session two record covers

POWERAGE

Powerage album front ( with Mexican Yellow lettering variation)

 "Powerage" New Zealand ( blue lettering) / "RnR Damnation"  single Japan (above)

 

Australian version with "Red POW" / Japan Version (below)

Original standee below:

Serious collectors have 'em all !!!

Mexican Blue ( bootleg ?) and Powerage-Multi-Coloured-Vinyl-UK

Cartridges (above)

Official posters old and new & Record Cie Photo

 

 Powerage back ( color variations) / Single

Italian 1979 promo single with Pic sleeve (front/back)

Rare Israeli promo LP (front/back) - is this one a real one or a fake ?-
 

 "Rock N Roll Damnation" maxi single ( noir & Blanc) / réédition 45t 1980 / "HtoH" single from Benelux

some promo / press kit & stickers from Powerage

Different adverts ( below) and standee:

Different adverts in mag

 

PIC DISC: Japanese official (?) Warner version(above)

 

Red Vinyl Canada 1978 / Bootleg Pic Disc version (below):

 

AC/DC Powerage KnuckleBonz Statue / Powerage 2024 Gold Vinyl

 

 Angus recreating the POWERAGE album cover at a photo session for an American Fanzine / Live Posters from "Powerage" & "H2H" (below)

Angus and Bon with someone for the Record Company with an alternate version of the album with an all dark POWERAGE lettering

------------------Original session December 1977 -------------------------

By Jim Houghton (photo) + assistant unknown & Earl Steinbicker ( lightning)

Art direction Bob Defrin (Atlantic)

 Technical parts:

"Jim took the photo on Ektachrome film with a Hasselblad 500EL camera equipped with an 80mm Planar lens, using a  single Balcar studio strobe, umbrella reflector and a Calumet generator."

For the same session there were two different backgrounds or lightning, one most likely used for Powerage and the other for "Highway to hell"
 

 

 

 the two pics in the middle are almost the one from the album cover, we're getting closer but we're still missing the original pic from the cover.

 

Powerage unused pics from session, some ended up on bootlegs and others in the press.

above new addition: Déc 2019

Never could find the original pic that was used for the cover of Powerage

 

Fantastic Australian promo poster

 

Stockholm, Mannheim & Dortmund concerts

Recent Powerage sticker
 

 Promotional American poster for Powerage with quite similar background (grey) and shot used on the Highway to Hell album

HIGHWAY TO HELL

different album covers (original pic heavily airbrushed)
On the original picture below, Angus eyes are almost closed

 Session with grey background/ lightning

 some more...

Some adverts

Some more

German Concert advert ( or poster ?) with original picture from the session -left- / Horrible original tee shirt -right-

Tapes & bootleg Pic disc

very cool recent billboard ( where ?)

Australian advert

 German poster ( wrong side)  included in German Tour edition of Highway to Hell

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Highway to hell backcover with non- airbrushed Phil Rudd Tee shirt 

Session in Brooklyn Staten Island on the unfinished West Shore Expressway spring 1979

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What happened to Jim Houghton ?

He vanished many years ago, not even his family knows where he is or if he's still alive

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