AC/DC’s early breakthrough came from an unintended source: radio stations chose to play the B-side of a single rather than the ballad the band’s label hoped would attract airplay. The decision helped establish the group’s harder blues-rock identity at a financially precarious point in its early career, rather than pushing it towards a softer commercial sound.

In 1975, the band released ‘Love Song’ from its Australian debut album, High Voltage, despite Angus Young’s later dislike of the track and its departure from AC/DC’s usual style. DJs familiar with the band’s live performances instead played its cover of the blues standard ‘Baby, Please Don’t Go’, which became a hit; Young described this as the single’s “saving grace”. The article places the episode before AC/DC became a major commercial force, eventually selling more than 200 million records.