99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981!
That year PLR welcomed AC/DC to Hartford’s XL Center (which at the time was called the Hartford Civic Center). The boys from Australia hit the road in 1981 to support its eighth studio album, “For Those About To Rock We Salute You,” which featured the singles Let’s Get It Up and the album’s title track For Those About To Rock We Salute You.
This was singer Brian Johnson’s first appearance in Connecticut as AC/DC’s front man. AC/DC had previously played only other concert in Connecticut (1978 at The Shaboo Inn) and that was with the late Bon Scott on vocals. Over the next decade or so AC/DC would go on to play several more shows in Connecticut, mainly in Hartford at the New Haven Coliseum.
AC/DC
Tour: For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Special Guest: Midnight Flyer
Thursday December 3, 1981
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $11.50
Band Lineup: Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd
Setlist*
- Hells Bells
- Shot Down In Flames
- Sin City
- Shoot To Thrill
- Back In Black
- Bad Boy Boogie
- Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
- The Jack
- What Do You Do For Money Honey
- Highway To Hell
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Let There Be Rock
- You Shook Me All Night Long
- For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
- T.N.T.
*source: setlist.fm
Check the audio from AC/DC’s 1981 show in Hartford
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