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AC/DC: Highway to Hell

He might dress like a schoolboy—and at 5'2", he's not much taller than one—but Angus Young is a giant among guitarists. This album's solo-to-song ratio is greater than one, and the fury starts with the blistering title track. Angus rips into his Gibson SG with some bluesy two-string bends at the 2:11 mark, and doesn't stop until the song's final drum crash more than a minute later. "A pick slide toward the end of the song leads to drunken-sounding finger tapping that would probably make Eddie Van Halen cringe," Björn Töroque notes. "But I still dig it."

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Guitarist: Angus Young
Album: Highway to Hell
Year: 1979
Length of solo: 1:17
Guitar used: Gibson SG
Where recorded: Criteria Studios, Miami; Roundhouse Studios, London
Alternate YouTube version: Live in Holland, 1979

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