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Bon: The Last Highway
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black | Jesse Fink
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In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That evening, Bon's lifeless body was found, still in the car. He was pronounced dead on arrival at King's College Hospital. Less than two months later, far away in the Caribbean, recording began on Back In Black, AC/DC's tribute to their fallen bandmate. Worldwide, it would go on to become the biggest selling rock album of all time. The legend of the man known around the world simply as 'Bon' only grows with each passing year - in death the AC/DC icon has become a god to millions of people - but how much of his story is myth or pure fabrication and how much of the real man do we know? There have been books that claim to tell his story. They haven't even come close. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, leaves no stone unturned for Bon: The Last Highway, a book years in the making that finally solves the riddle of the death of Bon Scott. The 1977-80 period forged the legend of AC/DC. There wasn't a harder working band in the music business. But, as Fink startlingly reveals, the relentless AC/DC machine was also threatening to come apart. Fink has answers to the nagging questions rock 'n' roll fans have been asking since 1980 and reveals secrets that will change music history. Bon: The Last Highway is the original, forensic, unflinching and masterful biography Bon Scott has so richly deserved and music fans around the world have been waiting for.
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Lizpixie
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#MarchIntoThe70s #Day13 #HighwayToHell As far as I‘m concerned, it‘s never been AC/DC after Bon Scott died.He was a larger-than-life larrikin, the perfect mix of Scottish charm & Aussie mischief.You just have to watch the old videos with him at the front,especially Let There Be Rock. He was a rock version of Puck. His highway ended ihorribly, in the back of a car, too pissed to save himself.But oh boy, he‘d be giving the devil a run for his money!

Cinfhen The good ones always die too young 💔 5y
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LittleMummyMe
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Mehso-so

A book filled with plenty of information on Bon Scott and AC/DC.
Unfortunately written in such a way that it can get quite confusing and boring.

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Lizpixie
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#MarchIntoOz #day8 #ItsALongWayToTheTop Coming into the 2nd week of my #photochallenge this is inspired by one of the most famous Aussie bands AC/DC. I‘m a massive Bon Scott fan, the only decent album they did after he died was Back In Black & a lot of that was written by Bon.Born 9/07/46 in Scotland before his family emigrated to Australia,Bon combined Scots puckish charm with Aussie larrikin & lived life at full speed till his death in 1980.🎶🤘

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Lizpixie
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#BookMail today was this pre-order, an "unofficial" biography of Bon Scott, the original AC/DC frontman who died too young in 1980. A quintessential Aussie larrakin, with a lot of Scots thrown in, Bon was charismatic, funny, irreverent & charming but he was also unpredictable, dangerous & an alcoholic. I adore Bon, I refuse to listen to AC/DC post-Bon & the way the Youngs have been so secretive & full of crap makes me angry. Rock on Bon?

josie281 Ooohhh. I want to read this! 7y
Lizpixie @josie281 it's just been released here in Australia, if you want a copy I know bookdepository.com has it. I think @Liberty would like this also! 7y
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