For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

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"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" cover
Single by AC/DC
from the album 'For Those About to Rock We Salute You'
B-side(s) "Let There Be Rock" (live)
Released 1982
Format CD
Recorded 1981
Genre Hard Rock
Length  ???
Label Atlantic Records
Producer(s) Mutt Lange
AC/DC singles chronology
"Let's Get It Up / Snowballed"
(1982)
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
(1982)
"Guns For Hire / Landslide"
(1996)
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" cover
Song by AC/DC
from the album For Those About to Rock We Salute You
Released November 23, 1981
Recorded  ???
Genre Hard Rock
Length 5:44
Label Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson
Producer(s) Robert John "Mutt" Lange
For Those About to Rock We Salute You track listing
N/A "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
(1)
Put the Finger on You
(2)
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" cover
Song by AC/DC
from the album Who Made Who
Released May 1986
Who Made Who track listing
Chase the Ace
(8)
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
(9)
N/A

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) is a song by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The song was released onto AC/DC's album with the same name in 1981. The cannons fired in the song are mixed with exploding fireworks. The video to this song was filmed live in Detroit in 1983. The song would later be released on AC/DC's first soundtrack album, Who Made Who, released five years later for the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive.

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  • This song was paraphrased by Jack Black's character "Dewey Finn" in School of Rock as "For those about to rock, I salute you!"