Yet it's not the classic sound polished up for the gold discs that were to follow – AC/DC are still being produced by Harry Vanda and George Young here, with no Mutt Lange to demand stadium-sized choruses.
In both countries, there is no existing soccer structure to mount the world's biggest sporting event, which demands stadiums and extensive public works for 32 countries to play 64 matches.
The problem is squaring this rhetoric with the pragmatic demands of stadium pop.
Our reading interest can go on in private, but our rooting interest demands a stadium, an outdoor venue, a bleacher … the prize supplies that.
Along the way, of course, we'd like to see communities finally own the sports teams whose billionaire speculators demand free stadiums, huge tax breaks and the right to abuse the fans who love them with reckless abandon.
Stadium-sized EDM need stadiums.
The demand for new stadiums turns sports commissioners into legal versions of loan sharks as they storm into recalcitrant municipalities and threaten the locals for being such deadbeats.
Stadiums demand bigger choruses, bigger chords and big but empty gestures aimed at the bloke in row Z who has dropped his burger.
"Do you know what I could do to you?" Rocker then demanded that two stadium security agents not allow Pearlman into the clubhouse.
Or demanding a new stadium be built in Cape Town because the existing one didn't have good enough views of Table Mountain.
Half an hour later, in a basement community room two blocks away, on 35th Street, Christine Quinn, a city council member from the West Side, and other borough politicians, supported the Javits Center expansion but demanded that the stadium be removed from the plan.
