Today we take a look at the mysterious death of AC/DC Singer Bon Scott
00:00 - Introduction
1:25 - Bon Scott's Childhood & Early Years
2:40 - How Bon Scott Joined AC/DC
3:55 - Bon Scott's Final Night of His Life
5:10 - Bon Scott's Body Is Discovered
6:15 - Bon Scott's Bandmate Disputes His Cause of Death
7:30 - U.F.O's Connection To Bon Scott's Death
8:59 - Brian Johsnon Replaces Bon Scott
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While the demise of Bon Scott may seem like a straight forward death by misadventure story on the surface, there’s been many conflicting accounts over what actually happened. In my opinion Bon Scott’s death is one of rock n’ rolls greatest mysteries and almost 40 years after his death new details continue to emerge on what happened on his last night alive. Stay tuned to find out the full story.
Few bands have managed to do what AC/DC has accomplished. The band has managed to stay relevant for over 40 years and they survived tragedy after tragedy with band members passing away, the media blaming them for both fan deaths and for allegedly inspiring a serial killer. One of the first tragedies the band dealt with was the death of frontman Bon Scott.
The story of what happened to Bon is built from the recollections of several people one of which was named Alistair Kinnear, Joe Fury and Silver Smith. These three people all have something in common with the drug heroin, something Scott was alleged to have used by some. The rest of the story of what happened to the singer is based off the testimonials of the members of AC/DC, the band UFO and Bon's Japanese girlfriend named Anna Baba who briefly dated the singer in the run up to his death.. Although it’s important to note that Anna wasn’t allegedly with Bon the night of he passed away..
Born in Scotland in 1946, Scott’s family would move to Australia when he was just 5 years old. He learned music at a very young age, first taking up the drums. He dropped out of high school at age 15 to start his first band, The Spektors who would merge with another local band and become the Valentines. Bon Scott took a bigger role in singing becoming the co-vocalist and the group scored a few hit songs on the local and national radio, but by the end of the decade the band disbanded due to artistic differences. And In 1970 the then drummer and occasional singer moved to Adelaide where he fronted a progressive rock band known as Fraternity. By 1973 the band changed their name to Fang and would be touring the UK where they were a supporting act to the band Geordie whose frontman Brian Johnson would coincidentally enough replace Scott in AC/DC following his death. Prior to the UK tour Scott married his first wife a local named Irene Thorton whom he met the previous year
In 1974 Bon would suffer a devastating motorcycle injury that left him in a coma and put his career as a drummer in jeopardy. After he would be released from the hospital, he would take up odd jobs including being a chauffeur for a local band named AC/DC who just happened to be on the search for a new singer. He would become the band’s frontman in 1974 and the following year the group released their their first album with Scott titled High Voltage and the band made their TV debut with the singer on local musical program show called Countdown where they performed the song Baby Please Dont Go which featured Scott dressed as a school girl which complimented guitarist Angus Young signature school boy outfit. The band would release several subsequent albums, but it would be their 6th album 1979’s Highway to hell which would first record to break the US Top 100 charts and make AC/DC one of the most popular rock acts in the world.
The tour to support the record would be the band’s final with Scott who would die just three weeks following the group’s last show in Southampton in the UK.
Scott was in London in February of 1980 working on the group’s upcoming Back in Black album. And he was living in a flat with his new Japanese girlfriend, Anna Baba, but also in the picture was his former girlfriend an Australian named Margaret Silver Smith who was involved in the drug scene which we’ll talk about later in this story. The daytime was for recording, while the nights were for partying. On February 15th Scott was in the studio with the Young Brothers who were working on two songs named "Have a Drink On Me" and "Let Me Put My Love Into You" with Scott playing on drums instead of singing or writing lyrics.