"Danger" | ||||
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Single by AC/DC | ||||
from the album Fly on the Wall | ||||
B-side | "Back in Business" "Hell or High Water" (Aus) | |||
Released | 21 June 1985 | |||
Recorded | 1985 | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 4:24 | |||
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"Danger" on YouTube |
"Danger" is a single by Australian rock band AC/DC, from the album Fly on the Wall released in 1985. A stripped down blues shuffle, it was written by Brian Johnson, Angus Young, and Malcolm Young.
Cash Box said that the song "is a gritty and blues inflected effort" with "growling vocals and tale of drunken fun." [1] Billboard said that the "monarchs of metal growl and bluster at a lumbering pace." [2]
In most territories, the single's B-side was "Back in Business", but in Australia and New Zealand, "Hell or High Water" was featured.
Chart (1985) | Peak position |
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Australian (Kent Music Report) [3] | 69 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [4] | 47 |
United Kingdom (Official Singles Chart) [5] | 48 |
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