Bon: The Last Highway

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

By: Jesse Fink

Narrated by: Simon Harvey

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.

©2017 Jesse Fink (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

disappointed

I was looking for a biography. this is a who done it about his death

The Truth is out there

I’m glad Jesse put time into making this. Youth like me (22) that care get to hear the truth of what happed to one of the worlds best bands.

I’m sure people don’t read as much nowadays but this this book needs more credit then it gets.

A must read for any Bon Scott fan

I never knew the details of Bon Scott's death. this book is very enlightening. I never knew how controlling the Young brothers are (or were) either. after reading this book I'm convinced that Bon Scott wrote the lyrics on either part of if not all of Back in Black and was never credited for any of it. the book sometimes reads almost as a "Kennedy conspiracy theory" with all the secrecy following his death. I don't think the police did much investigating at the time of his death because they probably figured he was just another rock star that OD'd. they were probably right to a certain extent but if they had investigated further they might have found some foul play involved... we'll never know now.

it also kind of drags at certain points but overall there's so much research that went into this book that it makes it so interesting. I thought I knew Bon Scott's story, but I had no clue until reading (or listening to) this book! highly recommended!

Scary

The subject matter was riveting.
Keep me on the edge of my seat and provided many unknowns.

great story

The author does a great job on giving all the information you need to come to a conclusion on what happened to the great late Ronnie "Bon" Scott