AC/DC will once again salute those about to rock, as well as original singer Bon Scott, with a four-CD box set called Bon Fire (East/West / Elektra).
Elektra spokeswoman Melissa Barreto said that while the collection is still being assembled, it is on track for a Nov. 11 release. Scott screamed and wailed into the microphone for the riff-hard band from 1974 until his death after a bout with drinking in Feb. 1980.
Included in the set will be a previously promo-only CD, recorded live in Atlantic Records' studios in the mid-1970s. Another disc will feature rare B-sides, unreleased tracks and early TV performances, while a third will be the soundtrack to the band's 1980 live concert movie Let There Be Rock (not to be confused with the '77 sophomore album of the same name).
Oddly enough, Bon Fire is to be rounded out by 1980's Back In Black album, AC/DC's first with second-wave singer Brian Johnson. While that album went on to sell over 10 million copies, it was the classic Highway To Hell, Scott's last venture with the group, that finally broke the band in the United States. [Tues., Sept. 9, 1997, 2 p.m. PST]
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