99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1983!
That year PLR welcomed AC/DC to New Haven Coliseum. AC/DC hit the road in ’83 to support their eighth studio album “Flick of the Switch,” which featured singles like Guns For Hire, Flick of the Switch and Nervous Shakedown. It was the last album to feature drummer Phil Rudd before his return 12 years later. Rudd left AC/DC in May 1983 and was replaced by 19 year-old Simon Wright, who would join the band on the “Flick of the Switch” World Tour.
This was AC/DC’s first of only two concerts ever in New Haven. The band also played in New Haven in 1985 on their “Fly On The Wall” Tour but never returned after that.
AC/DC
Tour: Flick of the Switch
Wednesday December 7, 1983
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $12.50
Band Lineup: Angus Young (lead guitar), Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar), Brian Johnson (vocals), Cliff Williams (bass), Simon Wright (drums)
Setlist*
- Guns For Hire
- Shoot To Thrill
- Sin City
- Bedlam In Belgium
- Back In Black
- Bad Boy Boogie
- Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
- Flick of the Switch
- Hells Bells
- The Jack
- Highway To Hell
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Let There Be Rock
- T.N.T. – Encore
- For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) – Encore
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of AC/DC in 1983