Because he was older than all of us, like he was 28 and I was 18, he lived a life very separate from the rest of the band. Bon was a poet first and a vocalist second.
‘He could not find a comfortable position in the small car,’ Clinton Walker recounts in his book.
The hard-rocking frontman, whose vocals are heard on classic tracks like Highway To Hell, T.N.T., and It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll was a hard drinker who lived the rock-star life with reckless abandon. On this particular night, he’d been indulging his habit in a local club.As Vince Lovegrove, one of the members of an early band that Scott played with said, “The thing I loved most about Bon Scott, was his almost unique self. It was like he got erased.”As soon as his vocals are about to begin he comes out from behind the drums and hits the stage dressed as this schoolgirl. And it’s funny, it took his death to wake the world to AC/DC. )“I got a phone call,” Way recounts. But I don’t know the actual situation.”‘To Bon, from Björn in Sweden’; ‘AC-Foxi-DC’; ‘Ronald and Frank from Germany – cheers’; ‘To Bon, Szmery from Poland.’It was always very, very good, and there were never any problems. Tiptoe up the path, look closely, and you can see a handful of scribbled tributes grouped around the legend ‘Flats 1-6’.
What I’m saying is, I met the guy who might have been ‘Kinnear’, but that feeling is based on no real evidence, just a hunch.” Walker was unable to track down the ‘real’ Kinnear for his book.Elder concluded in his article: ‘It was one of those moments when you suddenly realise the line between truth and myth in the rock’n’roll lifestyle.
But the idea that a seasoned drinker like Scott would die after a few drinks seemed unlikely to many.
Would he go so far as to say that Scott was doing smack backstage with UFO? Scott wasn’t the first to die this way.
These days I’m older and perhaps wiser, because I’ll have a few drinks or whatever, and one night I might do a bit of coke. And he was a very highly intelligent lyricist and poet. His second book on AC/DC explores frontman Bon Scott's potential solo career, sensational details about his love life, and a look into the rigors of life on the road. I’m not saying his lifestyle should be endorsed or recommended, but you have to say that certain people lived in a different world, or created a different world.
To compound the irony, there’s even a Renault behind it (although admittedly it’s a Mégane, not a 5).A tradesman unloading a white van shrugs; he’s only making a delivery, and he actually comes from Bromley. There were plenty of good rock’n’roll singers around at the time but none could make the grade as Bon did. All the characters linked to Bon in the last 24 hours of his life were allegedly associated with heroin. The Valentines were a satin-clad, bell-bottom-wearing teeny-bop band. We were using heroin after the show. Answer Save. “Additionally, a fatal heroin overdose is nearly always caused by respiratory arrest.”Nothing is ever straightforward when a rock star dies.
And unfortunately I think what probably happened… If you’re not skilled at the art of heroin, then you do dance with the Devil…Try as you might, you can’t prevent that wry smile returning to your lips: Bag It & Bin It? I knew that Pete [Way] had AC/DC’s numbers; Joe didn’t have the numbers of anyone else in the band. There are hundreds of tribute bands named after him, he’s a phenomenon. Bon had my phone number, and he had all the directions of how to get to my flat in Fulham.”Almost 25 years after Bon Scott’s death, there are still many unexplained events that surround it.“Bon was found dead at five o’clock in the morning or something like that.