Prepare to witness some Ultimate Guitar – the original AC/DC Vocalist Dave Evans has released his cover of Elvis Presley’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, and it lives up to the decades of hype that have preceded it! A lot of people’s first encounter with AC/DC was seeing them cover Elvis’ classic hit at their Opera House show, which we covered a couple of days ago in a nostalgic deep dive. Plenty of fans clamoured for AC/DC to release a single that covered the song so they could relive the awesome performance and play it whenever they wanted, but the band never did. Now, for AC/DC’s 50th anniversary, Dave Evans is finally delivering on the desires of many veteran akka dakka fans, by simultaneously capturing the suave style of Elvis AND rendering this track as close as possible to how AC/DC would have done it back in the day. This is a treasure that is sure to scratch an itch that’s been going on for decades for many fans the world over!

This has come just in time for AC/DC superfans too, considering that Dave has decided to release this as a celebration of the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary. Dave’s time with the band between 1973 and 1974 produced this as a crown jewel of sorts, so it was criminal that we never got an official release, especially as it was one of the tracks that Dave was famous for singing with AC/DC live regularly. Indeed, AC/DC had Heartbreak Hotel on their usual setlist, so it’s shocking it never saw a release until now… And Dave knew it would have to be special to be worthy of the decades long wait and the 50th anniversary. So of course, he teamed up with Danish producer Flemming Rasmussen – THAT Flemming, from Metallica’s “Ride The Lightning”, “…And Justice For All”, and everything in between!

With events of this magnitude, no AC/DC fan should have to experience the pain of missing out on knowing about Heartbreak Hotel. Well, for that, Dave has the perfect solution: a brand new official Facebook page! No longer just a personal account (although he’ll still be using that, of course!) Dave Evans ROCKS is your one stop shop for everything Dave related from now on.

And after that, the sky is the limit! Rock Land Mexico, 3rd December, 2022 – It will be so wonderful for all to experience this astonishing charity event with Dave! There are 777 musicians together so far and counting! Many more surprises! We hope to see you there soon! Click here to read all about it!