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Bon: The Last Highway

The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black

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Bon: The Last Highway

By: Jesse Fink
Narrated by: Simon Harvey
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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.

The death of Bon Scott is The Da Vinci Code of rock. 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 best seller 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 1977-1980 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.

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loved it. An indepth account of the greatest there ever was and probably the most honest account of his sad demise

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Is it true? Is it made up. You’ll never know, but let’s not try and tarnish the name of a legend. I’m none the wiser.

The true/untrue story of.a legend

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Great story.. I've loved AC-DC since 1980..I thought I knew the story quite well but this blew it wide open.. Not a recommended read for hard-core Ang and Mal fanatics

Eye opening

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Seems like this complicated and very talented man was abandoned at the end and a lot of arse covering followed... A sad loss

The hidden information on Bon

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I’ve heard and listened to a number of accounts concerning Bon Scott’s final hours over the years, and just as many of AC/DC (my favourite band) also. The problem when contemplating the death of Bon, is the overwhelming amount of conjecture surrounding the sad event.
Jesse Fink’s book overall & ultimately doesn’t really provide anything new, rumours & conjecture that have been doing the rounds for years. Personally, I believe the official line isn’t too far from the truth, with perhaps something omitted, possibly Kinnear & Kakoulli -so out of it, after some serious heroin and booze ingestion in Kinnears flat- actually forgot an unconscious Bon was in the car, and Bon had asphyxiated in the overly long time between the time either of them had recovered. On waking, and remembering Bon in the car, Panic had ensued, and a story was constructed (blankets - sleeping it off etc) that has done the rounds ever since. (Adding yet more conjecture) Heroin ? Coke ? It’s the ‘70’s ffs !! That’s fairly obvious- as is Bon not actually being a saint…… but a rock star non pareil .
I will agree, always have, that much of Back in Black has Bon’s lyrical stamp all over it….coincidental ? Possibly, but no other post Bon Scott album has matched its genius- & that is an indisputable fact.
Entertaining listen, uninspiring narration.

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