Bon Scott - Legendary Wild Man

After settling as a child in Australia, Bon first became interested in music playing drums in the Fremantle Scots Pipe Band alongside his father. His drumming and singing led him to his first band, "The Spektors" in 1964. He was primarily the drummer in this band but did do some singing.

Two years later Bon was starting to get more serious about his music and then The Spektors merged with another local band to form "The Valentines". It was with this band that stardom started happening for Bon after they scored a number of charting hits.

The Valentines broke up in 1970 though, so Bon went off and joined "Fraternity". This move escalated Bon's fame as Fraternity went on to record two albums and tour extensively in Australia, supporting the likes of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Manfred Mann, Free and even Jerry Lee Lewis! Fraternity even toured the United Kingdom where they supported Status Quo and Geordie, who's lead singer Brian Johnson would ironically replace Bon in AC/DC many years later.

Fraternity split up in 1974 and Bon went back to a regular job for a short while in Adelaide, but he did play around for a little while with a local band called "The Mount Lofty Rangers" before being offered the job as lead singer for AC/DC. Their original singer Dave Evans was not working out and they had heard of Bon through Vince Lovegrove , formerly of The Valentines. Bon accepted and the rest is history!

Sadly, Bon Scott's party came to an end in London on February 19th, 1980. Just when the band had reached super-stardom and Bon thought that he had finally made it, life came to an end for him. Bon was found dead in a car belonging to an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear. Alistair had ben partying with Bon the night before and upon arival at his home, could not get the Drunk Bon out of the car and into the house. So he left him there to sleep it off in the car. He then went to bed himself and late the next day found Bon still in the car....dead!

Pulmonary aspiration of vomit (he choked on his vomit) was the cause of Bon's death and the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure". Bon Scott's body was flown back to Australia and cremated and his ashes were interred by his family in Fremantle, Western Australia.

"All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll."

"I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week."

"I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much."

"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."

"I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number."

"That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?"

"The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play."

"We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun."