“They had outdone themselves with Highway to Hell – the title song about the hardships of life on the road – and had even got onto Top of the Pops with Touch Too Much, where Bon looked as if he was having the time of his life. “Whole Lotta Rosie was one of the greatest rock songs of all time, as far as I was concerned and it was just one of many classics that he had written and recorded with AC/DC, from Let There Be Rock to Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Their lead singer, Brian Johnson, had never felt so cold in ages and decided to rectify matters by watching the warm-up act, an Australian combo who had just changed their name from Fraternity to Fang, but were still experimenting with their music. A chance meeting in Torquayīack in 1973, English band, Geordie, were on tour in Torquay and trying to stay warm amid the unseasonal sleet and hail as they prepared for a gig at the Town Hall. So the next issue was: who would be up to the job of filling Bon’s boots and bringing his indomitable vocal style to their growing audience across the world?Īnd that sparked a remarkable sequence of events which wouldn’t have been out of place in the film This is Spinal Tap. They briefly considered disbanding altogether, but Bon’s parents, Chick and Isabelle, who had emigrated from Angus to Australia in 1952, convinced them to persevere. Understandably, his passing left a huge void in the group who had struck gold with their sixth album Highway to Hell in 1979 and were rapidly gaining a global reputation. The Forfar-born rocker, who spent his early years in Kirriemuir and didn’t so much flirt with danger as invite it upstairs for a night of crazy love, was no stranger to temptation and the cause of his demise was listed as “acute alcohol poisoning”.
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It was a shocking end to a career lived at full throttle: the sudden death of AC/DC’s flamboyant singer Bon Scott at the age of 33 in London in 1980.
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