Editing Powerage (section)

==Background==
After a 12-date European tour opening for [[Black Sabbath]] in April, bassist [[Mark Evans (musician)|Mark Evans]] was fired from AC/DC on 3 May 1977.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilkening |first1=Matthew |title=Mark Evans Discusses Life In and Out of AC/DC |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ac-dc-mark-evans-interview/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=9 May 2012 |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511230417/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ac-dc-mark-evans-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the AC/DC memoir ''AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll'', former manager Michael Browning states, "I got a call one day from Malcolm and Angus. We were in London, I went to their apartment and they told me they wanted to get rid of Mark. Him and Angus didn't see eye to eye. They used to have a sort of tit-for-tat thing going, but nothing that I would have ever thought was going to be gig-threatening." According to Browning, the Young brothers were seriously considering [[Colin Pattenden]] of [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] fame.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Villanopublished |first1=Freddy |title=AC/DC's Cliff Williams reflects on four decades at the top of rock's bottom-end |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/acdcs-cliff-williams-reflects-on-four-decades-at-the-top-of-rocks-bottom-end |website=guitarworld |date=8 January 2020 |access-date=9 May 2022 |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509224456/https://www.guitarworld.com/features/acdcs-cliff-williams-reflects-on-four-decades-at-the-top-of-rocks-bottom-end |url-status=live }}</ref> Browning feared that Pattenden was too old and didn't fit the band's image, so he instead pushed for [[Cliff Williams]], who had previously played with [[Home (UK band)|Home]] and [[Bandit (band)|Bandit]]. Williams, who could also sing background vocals, passed the audition and was asked to join the band. In a 2011 interview with Joe Bosso that appears on [[MusicRadar]], Evans reflected on his ousting from the group: 
:"With Angus and Malcolm, they were put on this earth to form AC/DC. They're committed big-time. And if they feel your commitment is anything less than theirs, well, that's a problem. Angus was intense. He was AC/DC 100 percent. His work ethic was unbelievable. When I was with him, he expected everybody to be just like him, which is pretty impossible... At the time, Malcolm said something about them wanting a bass player who could sing, but I think that was a smokescreen. I don't know if there was any one reason. It's just the way it went down. I felt the distance growing between me and Angus and Malcolm. When I was fired, it wasn't so much a surprise as it was a shock. There was a lot of tension in the band at the time. We'd just been kicked off a Black Sabbath tour, and this was right when a trip to the States was cancelled because the record company rejected the ''[[Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap]]'' album. So it was a hard period."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bosso |first1=Joe |title=Interview: Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans on life in the band |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-former-ac-dc-bassist-mark-evans-on-life-in-the-band-505345 |website=MusicRadar |date=11 October 2011 |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=18 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918234401/https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-former-ac-dc-bassist-mark-evans-on-life-in-the-band-505345 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The band finally toured America for the first time in the summer of 1977, focusing on smaller markets at first but eventually playing [[CBGB]] in New York City and the [[Whisky a Go Go]] in Los Angeles. In December, they played a set in front of a small audience at [[Atlantic Recording Studios]] in New York City which was broadcast live over Radio WIOQ in [[Philadelphia]] and hosted by Ed Sciaky.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hatmaker |first1=Julia |title=25 memorable DJs and radio personalities from Philadelphia's past |url=https://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/06/25_memorable_djs_and_radio_per.html |website=pennlive |date=15 June 2017 |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=31 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131204816/https://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/06/25_memorable_djs_and_radio_per.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The promotional album, ''[[Live from the Atlantic Studios]]'', was later released on the 1997 ''[[Bonfire (album)|Bonfire]]'' box set. In early 1978, the band returned to Sydney to record their next album.