AC/DC - Highway to Hell

"Highway To Hell"

Livin' easy
Livin' free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Askin' nothin'
Leave me be
Takin' everythin' in my stride
Don't need reason
Don't need rhyme
Ain't nothin' that I'd rather do
Goin' down
Party time
My friends are gonna be there too

I'm on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell

No stop signs
Speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Like a wheel
Gonna spin it
Nobody's gonna mess me around
Hey, Satan
Payin' my dues
Playin' in a rockin' band
Hey, mamma
Look at me
I'm on the way to the promised land

I'm on the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell
Highway to hell

Don't stop me

I'm on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell

(highway to hell) I'm on the highway to hell
(highway to hell) highway to hell
(highway to hell) highway to hell
(highway to hell)

And I'm goin' down
All the way
I'm on the highway to hell

For those who think that "Highway to Hell" is the song for a band that worships the Devil, STOP RIGHT THERE! Because you are very much mistaken. Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Phil Rudd have said that this song is an homage to their first 6 years. They explain that the song is about the hard times that they faced getting to where the were at the release of the album and song. It was "Hell" what they went through and thissong was meant to explain that.

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"Highway to Hell"
A-side label of one of Australian vinyl releases
Single by AC/DC
from the album Highway to Hell
B-side	"If You Want Blood (You've Got It)"
Released	27 July 1979
Format	7-inch
Recorded	March–April 1979
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:27
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Bon Scott, Angus Young,Malcolm Young
Producer(s)	Mutt Lange
AC/DC singles chronology
"Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" (1978) "Highway to Hell" (1979) "Girls Got Rhythm" (1979)
Highway to Hell track listing "Highway to Hell" (1) "Girls Got Rhythm" (2) Music video "Highway to Hell" on YouTube

"Highway to Hell" is the opening track of AC/DC's 1979 album Highway to Hell. It was initially released as a single in 1979.

The song was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott, with Angus Young credited for writing the guitar riff which became an instant classic.^[1] AC/DC had made several studio albums before and were constantly promoting them via a grueling tour schedule, referred to by Angus Young as being on a highway to hell.^[1]

Background

The song's title reflects the incredibly arduous nature of touring constantly and life on the road.

The single spent 45 weeks on the German Singles Chart, even though it peaked at only No. 30, in its 19th week on that chart.

Bon Scott, whose talent as a singer and rock frontman were at a peak, was found dead in the back of a friend's car just over six months after the song was released and would never enjoy the band's incredible success that was to come.

"Highway to Hell" won the 'Most Played Australian Work Overseas' category at the 2009 APRA Awards.

Personnel

• Bon Scott – lead vocals
• Angus Young – lead guitar
• Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Phil Rudd – drums

Production

"Highway to Hell" was produced by Mutt Lange as part of the album by the same name, and his work is regarded as a significant factor in delivering one of the classic AC/DC albums, the emergence of the double-guitar sound, which was later perfected on Back in Black, and improved backing vocals with Malcolm Young, joined by Cliff Williams for the first time.

Live recordings

"Highway to Hell (live)"
Single by AC/DC
from the album Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition
B-side	"Hells Bells (live)"
Released	8 November 1992 (US)
Format	7-inch, CD
Recorded	1991
Genre	Hard rock, blues rock
Length	3:53
Label	Atco Epic (reissue)
Producer(s)	Bruce Fairbairn
AC/DC singles chronology
"Are You Ready" (1991) "Highway to Hell" (live) (1992) "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (live)
Live track listing "You Shook Me All Night Long" (11) "Highway to Hell" (12) "T.N.T." (13)

"Highway to Hell" has been included on three official live albums:

• Live: This was also released as a single. A video for the single was also released, containing a montage of footage from the Live at Donington home video.
• Let There Be Rock: The Movie
• Live at River Plate

List of accolades

• Ranked No. 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
• Ranked No. 152 on the 500 Greatest Classic Rock Songs compiled by 94.5 XKR.
• Ranked No. 23 on The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, a book by Martin Popoff.
• The song "Highway to Hell" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
• The master ringtone was certified Gold by the RIAA in June 2007 for sales in excess of 500,000.

Covers

• Sam Kinison covered the song in 1990 for his comedy album Leader of the Banned.
• Tiny Tim covered the song on his 1993 album "Rock".
• Marilyn Manson covered it as part of the soundtrack for the 1999 film Detroit Rock City.
• In 2002, Angry Samoan covered it for the punk tribute album For Those About To Rawk: A Punk Tribute to AC/DC.
• American band Lazlo Bane recorded the song for their 1970s covers album Guilty Pleasures, though hard rock is not their typical music style.
• Maroon 5 performed it on their It Won't Be Soon Before Long Tour, with Ryan Dusick (drummer) on vocals and lead guitar. Their version of it is also on their live EP 1.22.03.Acoustic.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed the song several times through their tour of Australia in 2014.
• Quiet Riot covered the song on their 1999 studio release, Alive & Well.
• In 2010, the song was covered by Jonathan Groff in the Glee episode, "Hell-O".
• X Factor UK 2014 contestant Ben Haenow covered at 4th live show.
• Billy Joel has performed it live regularly throughout the years.

Chart performance

Chart (1979) Peak position Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 52 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 14 France (SNEP) 23 Germany (Official German Charts) 30 Netherlands (Single Top 100) 17 Spain (PROMUSICAE) 24 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) 36 US Billboard Hot 100 47 Chart (1992) Peak position Australia (ARIA) 29 Netherlands (Single Top 100) 69 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 37 US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 1

Chart (2012) Peak position Scotland (Official Charts Company) 36 UK Singles (Official Charts Company) 40 US Billboard Hot Digital Songs 1 Chart (2013) Peak position Ireland (IRMA) 23 Scotland (Official Charts Company) 2 UK Singles (Official Charts Company) 4

Track listing

UK

Released 1992 by ATCO

1. "Bonny"/"Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "Hells Bells (Live)"
3. "The Jack (Live)"

Germany and France[edit]

Released 1992 by ATCO

1. "Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (Live)"
3. "High Voltage (Live)"

Australia[edit]

Released 1992 by Albert Productions / Epic Records

1. "Bonny"/"Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "High Voltage (Live)"
3. "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (Live)"

US and Canada[edit]

Released 1979 by Atlantic Records (Atlantic #3617)

1. A Side: "Highway To Hell"
2. B Side: "Night Prowler"

Released 1992 by ATCO (Atco #98491-2)

1. "Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (Live)"

Released 1992 by ATCO (Atco #96135-2)

1. "Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (Live)"
3. "The Jack (Live)"
4. "High Voltage (Live)"

Released 1992 by ATCO

1. "Highway to Hell (Live)"
2. "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (Live)"
3. "The Jack (Live)"
4. "High Voltage (Live)"
5. "Back in Black (Live)"

Use in popular culture

• The song is used as a walk-up song by designated hitter Adam Dunn of the Chicago White Sox.
• The song is featured in the How I Met Your Mother; Season 7 Episode 12 "Symphony of Illumination".
• The song is featured in the Family Guy; Season 10 Episode 7 "Amish Guy".
• The song is featured in the 2010 20th Century Fox film Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
• The song is featured in the 2010 Paramount Pictures film Iron Man 2.
• The song is featured in the 2010 Paramount Pictures film Megamind, along with its trailers.
• The song's guitar riff is briefly played in the 2003 Paramount Pictures film School of Rock.
• The song is featured in the 2008 TV show Top Gear; season 12 episode 1, particularly during the introduction of "Rig Stig".
• The song is featured in the 2007 TV show House; Season 3 Episode 21 Family.
• The song is featured in the 2005–present TV show Supernatural.
• The song is featured in the 2003 New Line Cinema film Final Destination 2.
• The song is featured in the 2000 New Line Cinema film Little Nicky.
• The song is featured in The Simpsons; Season 10 Episode 18 "Simpsons Bible Stories".
• The song is featured in the 1998 WWE pay-per-view SummerSlam.
• The song is featured as the title song in the 1981 movie Heavy Metal (film)
• The song's guitar riff is used as the "Rock and Roll" piece in Pocoyo Musical Blocks
• This song is featured in the 1999 New Line Cinema film Detroit Rock City .
• This song is featured in the 2007 Buena Vista Pictures film Wild Hogs .

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Frank Sinatra - The Girl From Ipanema

Frank Sinatra – The Girl From Ipanema Lyrics

Tall and tan and young and lovely 
The girl from Ipanema goes walking 
And when she passes, each one she passes 
Goes "A-a-a-h" 

When she walks she's like a samba 
That swings so cool and sways so gentle 
That when she passes, each one she passes 
Goes "A-a-a-h"

Oh, but I watch her so sadly 
How can I tell her I love her 
Yes, I would give my heart gladly 
But each day as she walks to the sea 
She looks straight ahead, not at me

Tall and tan and young and lovely 
The girl from Ipanema goes walking 
And when she passes, I smile, but she 
Doesn't see. She just doesn't see 
No, she just doesn't

Songwriters: PIERSON, KATE/SCHNEIDER, FRED/STRICKLAND, KEITH

The Girl From Ipanema lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SOCIEDAD GENERAL DE AUTORES DE ESPANA S G A E

Summer 1962. Rio de Janeiro. At the Veloso Bar, a block from the beach at Ipanema, two friends—the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the poet Vinícius de Moraes—are drinking Brahma beer and musing about their latest song collaboration.

The duo favor the place for the good brew and the even better girl-watching opportunities. Though both are married men, they’re not above a little ogling. Especially when it comes to a neighborhood girl nicknamed Helô. Eighteen-year-old Heloisa Eneida Menezes Pais Pinto is a Carioca—a native of Rio. She’s tall and tan, with emerald green eyes and long, dark wavy hair. They’ve seen her passing by, as she’s heading to the beach or coming home from school. She has a way of walking that de Moraes calls “sheer poetry.”

Legend has it that Jobim and de Moraes were so inspired by this shapely coed, they wrote a song for her right on the bar napkins. It’s a good story, but it’s not quite true.

Following their success composing songs for the 1959 film Black Orpheus, the writers began work on a musical comedy. Conceived by de Moraes, it was called Blimp and concerned a Martian who arrives in Rio during the height of Carnaval. And what might impress a little green man the most about our planet? A beautiful girl in a bikini, of course.

Jobim and de Moraes were stalled two verses in on the song they called “Menina que Passa” (“The Girl Who Passes By”). They needed a fresh breeze of inspiration, something vivid to stir their alien visitor’s blood. Conjuring up the vision of their favorite hip-swaying distraction, they poured out all their secret longing and lust into the newly titled “Garota da Ipanema.”

Though Blimp never got off the ground, the tune became not only a hit in Brazil, but the international calling card for a style of music that charmed the world—bossa nova.

While Helô inspired the song, it was another Carioca who carried it beyond Rio. Astrud Gilberto was just the wife of singing star João Gilberto when she entered a NYC studio in March 1963. João and Jobim were making a record with tenor saxman Stan Getz. The idea of cutting a verse on “Ipanema” in English came up, and Astrud was the only one of the Brazilians who spoke more than phrasebook English.

Astrud’s child-like vocal, devoid of vibrato and singerly mannerisms, was the perfect foil for her husband’s soft bumblebee voice. Jobim tinkled piano. Getz blew a creamy smooth tenor. Four minutes of magic went to tape.

A year later, the song was casting its quiet spell of sea and sand on the charts, washing past the Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” It peaked in mid-June at No. 5, selling over two million copies.

“The Girl From Ipanema” went on to become the second-most recorded popular song in history, behind “Yesterday.” Covered by an A-Z gamut of performers, it’s become the ultimate cliché of elevator music—shorthand for the entire lounge revival of the ’90s.

Over the years, Helô Pinheiro (her married name) enjoyed country-wide fame, ranking with Pelé as one of the goodwill ambassadors of Brazil. She never settled on an occupation, dabbling in acting, then running a modeling agency. In 1987, she posed nude for Playboy (and again in 2003, with her daughter Ticiane). In 2001, Helô opened the Girl From Ipanema clothing boutique in a Rio shopping center.

Shortly after, the heirs of Jobim (who died in 1994) and de Moraes (who died in 1980) filed a lawsuit, claiming Helô was only inadvertently involved in the song’s creation and didn’t have the right to use it for commercial purposes.

Helô says, “I never made a cent from ‘The Girl From Ipanema,’ nor do I claim that I should. Yet now that I’m using a legally registered trademark, they want to prohibit me from being the girl from Ipanema. I’m sure that Antonio and Vinícius would never question the use of the name.”

After much ugliness in and out of court, Helô was able to keep the name for her boutique. Today, she reflects on the early ’60s in Ipanema with nostalgia. “I like the time when everything was prettier because of love, as it says in the Portuguese version of the song. I am still touched when somebody plays the song in my honor.”

—By Bill DeMain

From Performing Songwriter Issue 98, December 2006

"The Girl from Ipanema"
Single by Stan Getz and João Gilberto
from the album Getz/Gilberto
Released	25 July 1964
Genre	Bossa nova jazz
Label	Verve
Writer(s)	Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes Norman Gimbel(English lyrics)
Producer(s)	Creed Taylor

	"The Girl from Ipanema" MENU 0:00 Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz's "The Girl from Ipanema" from Getz/Gilberto
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"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.

The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The 1964 single featuring Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became an international hit. This had been shortened from the version on the album Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released March 1964) which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Joao Gilberto. In the US, the single peaked at number five on the BillboardHot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the Easy Listening chart.Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly throughout the world.

Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song

History

Helô Pinheiro is the "girl from Ipanema".

Ipanema is a fashionable seaside neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível (Blimp), then a work-in-progress of Vinícius de Moraes. The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes By"); the first verse was different. Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. In turn, Moraes had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") six years earlier.

During a recording session in New York with João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz, the idea of cutting an English-language version came up. Norman Gimbel wrote the English lyrics. João's wife, Astrud Gilberto, was the only one of the Brazilians who could speak English well and was chosen to sing. Her voice, without trained singer mannerisms, proved a perfect fit for the song.

The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema. Daily, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles In the winter of 1962, the composers saw the girl pass by the bar. Since the song became popular, she has become a celebrity.

In Revelação: a verdadeira Garota de Ipanema (Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema) Moraes wrote that she was "the paradigm of the young Carioca: a golden teenage girl, a mixture of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, the sight of whom is also sad, in that she carries with her, on her route to the sea, the feeling of youth that fades, of the beauty that is not ours alone—it is a gift of life in its beautiful and melancholic constant ebb and flow."

Legal disputes

In 2001, the song's copyright owners (heirs of their composer fathers) sued Pinheiro for using the title of the song as the name of her boutique (Garota de Ipanema). In their complaint, they stated that her status as The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) does not entitle her to use a name that legally belongs to them. Public support was strongly in favor of Pinheiro. A press release by Jobim and Moraes, the composers, in which they had named Pinheiro as the real Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) was evidence that they had intended to bestow this title on her. The court ruled in favor of Pinheiro.

In a separate legal dispute, Astrud Gilberto sued Frito-Lay for trademark infringement for using the song in a TV ad for its baked potato chips. Gilberto argued that

as the result of the huge success of the 1964 recording, and her frequent subsequent performances of "Ipanema," she has become known as The Girl from Ipanema and is identified by the public with the 1964 recording. She claims as a result to have earned trademark rights in the 1964 recording, which she contends the public recognizes as a mark designating her as a singer. She contends, therefore, that Frito-Lay could not lawfully use the 1964 recording in an advertisement for its chips without her permission.

In Oliveria v. Frito-Lay Inc. (2001), her claims were rejected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The Boy from Ipanema

A parody of the song, with different lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim, is entitled The Boy From.... Another parody is The Girl With Emphysema by comedian Bob Rivers.When sung by female artists the song has often been rendered as "The Boy from Ipanema", such as by Peggy Lee (1964), Ella Fitzgerald (1965), and Shirley Bassey (1966). Petula Clarksang it in 1977 on The Muppet Show. Diana Krall recorded it on her 2009 album Quiet Nights.

The phrase "Boy from Ipanema" (but nothing from the song) appears in Norwegian recording artist Annie's "Anthonio". (Likewise, the phrase "Girl from Ipanema" appears in The B-52's' 1985 single "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland," again without any musical reference to the song)