'74 Jailbreak: l'evasione, o forse l'emersione... dall'oscurità, verso i riflettori della fama, che in pochi anni porterà gli AC/DC verso la gloria.  Semplice orecchiabilità dei brani composti e naturalmente il puro e granitico rock'n'roll amplificato e distorto all'ennesima potenza sono fra gli ingredienti che hanno reso ultrapopolari gli AC/DC, che, insieme agli Iron Maiden, sono gli esponenti della musica Hard più conosciuti al mondo, come in Italia ad esempio, dove anche chi non è amante del genere ne ha sentito almeno parlare.

'74 Jailbreak è la fase germinale del sopraccitato fenomeno AC/DC, gli albori del mito.  Dietro il microfono il sontuoso Bon Scott, con il suo stile inconfondibile e la sua voce unica, come sentiamo nella title-track Jailbreak, che apre il disco, in cui canta con la solita passione. Nell'intermezzo, ove basso e batteria procedono a mo di battito cardiaco, lo spettacolare botta e risposta fra voce e chitarra, ove la sei corde simula addirittura le sirene e colpi di fucile... e poi via a riprendere il potente riff creato dal muro di suono delle chitarre Malcolm e Angus Young. You Ain't Got A Hold On Me è particolarmente bella nel ritornello, completamente differente dal ritmico susseguirsi della strofa. Show Business, brano dal titolo significativo, che narra appunto le peripezie del mondo dello spettacolo, non è altro che un simpatico rock'n'roll, con tanto di coretti e buon assolo. Soul Stripper è introdotta da un bel basso che scandisce il semplice ritmo, facendo da tappeto alle evoluzioni delle chitarre. Poi il cantato presenta una linea melodica piuttosto originale. Ritmo velocissimo invece in Baby Please Don't Go, con riffettoni quasi country, e addirittura il tapping, cosa assai rara all'interno delle canzoni degli AC/DC.  

Questo EP da 25 minuti fu pubblicato in Australia nel 1974 per "lanciare" la band e già presenta fin da subito le caratteristiche tipiche del songwriting dei fratelli Young con Bon Scott (che poi non cambieranno mai, creando il mito della discografia dei "dischi tutti uguali"). '74 Jailbreak uscì soltanto nel 1984 in Canada, Giappone e negli Usa, mentre l'Europa ha visto una pubblicazione in elegante cover cartonata nel 2003. Questo è un disco dall'ascolto per nulla impegnativo, anzi molto immediato ed è ciò che lo rende godibilissimo. E, se è vero che la discografia con Bon Scott va posseduta tutta per intero, allora anche '74 Jailbreak non è assolutamente da meno. Consigliabile per chi voglia farsi un'idea della grande musica degli AC/DC.    

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01   Jailbreak (04:41)

There was a friend of mine on murder
And the judge's gavel fell
Jury found him guilty
Gave him sixteen years in hell
He said I ain't spending my life here
I ain't living alone
Ain't breaking no rocks on the chain gang
I'm breakin' out and headin' home

Gonna make a jailbreak
And I'm lookin' towards the sky
I'm gonna make a jailbreak
Oh, how I wish that I could fly

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
Got to be free

Jailbreak, let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years
Jailbreak, had more than I can take
Jailbreak, yeah

He said he'd seen his lady being fooled with
By another man
She was down and he was up
He had a gun in his hand
Bullets started flying everywhere
And people started to scream
Big man lying on the ground
With a hole in his body
Where his life had been
But it was

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
I got to be free

Jailbreak, jailbreak
I got to break out
Out of here

Heartbeats they were racin'
Freedom he was chasin'
Spotlights, sirens, rifles firing
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back

Jailbreak, jailbreak
Jailbreak, jailbreak
Jailbreak, jailbreak
Jailbreak, jailbreak
Jailbreak, jailbreak

02   You Ain't Got a Hold on Me (03:33)

You can roll me round your finger
You can roll me if I'm blind
You can roll me tally ho ho
I'm the easy rollin' kind
But don't think I'm facin' down hill
'Cause soon you'll see
You'll lose your grip and slip
'Cause you ain't got a hold on me

You ain't got a hold on me
You ain't got a hold on me
Why don't you let me be
'Cause you ain't got a hold on me

You can take me to your bedroom
You can take me to your heart
You can take me to a climax
I won't fall apart
But don't count on me givin' it
All back to you
Just because I'm hooked on livin'
Doesn't mean I'm hooked on you

You ain't got a hold on me
You ain't got a hold on me
Why don't you let me be, no no
You ain't got a hold on me
Oh let me be

You ain't got a hold on me
You ain't got a hold on me
Why don't you just let me be
'Cause you ain't got a hold on me

You ain't got a hold on me
You ain't got a hold on me
You ain't got a hold on me

Hey you ain't got a hold on me
Ain't got a hold on me
Ain't got a hold on me
Ain't got a hold on me
Ain't got a hold on me

03   Show Business (04:46)

You learn to sing
You learn to play
Why don't the businessmen
Ever learn to pay

That's show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

You play in halls
Play in bars
You're climbin' walls
Chasin' stars

That's show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

You pay the man
You pay your dues
When it's all gone, ooh
You sing the blues

Show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

You wanna roll
You wanna rock
You find it hard
If your guitar's in hock

That's show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

You're smoking butts
They smoke cigars
You're drown in debt
They drown in bars

That's show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

You pull a chick
Take her home
No use, man
You're worn out to the bone

That's show business [Show business]
Show business [Show business]
Show business
That's the way it goes

That's show business, show business
That's show business, show business, show business
That's the way it goes
Know what I mean

04   Soul Stripper (06:25)

Well I met her in the garden
Underneath that old apple tree
Sitting with a handful of flowers
Looking as cool as can be
We talked away a couple of hours
Then she laid her hand on my lap
Oh I thought I got to be dreaming
I didn't know I fell in her trap

Then she made me say things I didn't want to say
Then she made me play games I didn't want to play
She was a soul stripper, yeah
She took my heart
She was a soul stripper, ooh
And tore me apart

She started moving nice and easy
Slowly getting near to my spine
Killing off each last little feeling
Ooh everyone she could find
And when she had me hollow and naked, yeah
That's when she put me down
Pulled out a knife and flashed it before me
Stuck it in and turned it around

Then she made me say things I didn't want to say, you know
Then she made me play games I didn't want to play
She was a soul stripper, yeah
Ooh she took my heart
Ooh was a soul stripper
Tore me apart

Soul stripper, soul stripper
You're a soul stripper
Soul stripper, soul stripper
Soul stripper
Took out my heart
And tore it apart

Aah you're a soul stripper
Soul stripper, soul stripper

05   Baby, Please Don't Go (04:49)

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go

When the man done gone
When the man done gone
When the man done gone down to the county farm
He got the shackles on
Baby, please don't go
Don't leave me

I'll be a dog
I'll be a dog, woah
I'll be a dog kiss your way down there
When you walk along
Baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby, please don't go

No baby, please don't leave me
Why must you go away and do this to me, baby
I wanna suffer for you, suffer, suffer
Oh baby, please don't go
No!

Baby, baby, baby, please don't go, please don't go
Don't go and leave me, please don't go
Baby, humm
Baby, ahah
Oh don't go, no don't go
Oh don't go, no don't go
Ah don't go, don't go so slow
Oh don't go, no don't go

Why must you leave me lying on my back
Going across left side of the track
Found yourself a new man I know
So baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go

No no no no
Oh please, please don't leave me
I don't want to be left alone baby
Ah don't go, don't go, don't go
No!

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