New Bon Scott biography claims to ‘solve the mystery of how he died’
A new biography about the final three years of Bon Scott’s life has been announced.
Titled Bon - The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black, the book is the work of London born author Jesse Fink who penned the critically praised 2015 biography The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC.
Referring to Bon’s death in February 1980 as “the Da Vinci Code of rock,” the press release reads: “At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special - and unlikely - friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink… reveals its importance in Bon's story for the first time.”
The release continues: “Leaving no stone unturned in a journey that begins in Austin, 1977, and ends in London, 1980, Fink takes the reader back to the end of the '70s, a legendary era for music that saw the relentless AC/DC machine achieve its commercial breakthrough but also threaten to come apart.
“With unprecedented access to Bon's lovers, newly unearthed documents, and a trove of never-before-seen photos, Fink divulges startling new information about Bon's last hours to solve the mystery of how he died.”
It concludes: “Music fans around the world have been waiting for the original, forensic, unflinching, and masterful biography Bon Scott so richly deserves - and now, finally, it's here.”
Following a night of heavy drinking at the Music Machine club in Camden, 33-year-old Bon was left to sleep in a Renault 5 car by an acquaintance called Alistair Kinnear at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, London.
When Bon’s lifeless body was discovered the following morning, he was rushed by Kinnear to King's College Hospital in Camberwell where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The official cause on his death certificate was listed as ‘acute alcohol poisoning’ and classified as ‘death by misadventure’.
Available to pre-order now, Bon: The Last Highway is released in the UK this coming November.