June 29, 1980, Namur, Belgium: four months after Bon Scott’s death, a terrified Geordie sang his first AC/DC show weeks before Back in Black came out. Fans later carved the spot a monument.
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George Young misremembered Bon as a piper – he’d been the pipe band’s drummer. So Bon bought bagpipes that afternoon for $479 and learned them mid-session. The true story of rock’s greatest bluff.
Born in Kirriemuir, made in Fremantle, immortalised in bronze on top of a Marshall amp – why a Western Australian port town built a statue of AC/DC’s wildest son, and why it works.
She married the broke singer of Fraternity in 1972 and knew Bon Scott better than the myth ever did. The story of Irene Thornton, the Adelaide girl who loved Bon before AC/DC.
On March 21, 1977, AC/DC unleashed Let There Be Rock in Australia. Here’s how the album, its first single, and the tour cemented their legend.
Released in the US years late, Dirty Deeds still stormed the charts. Here’s why Bon Scott’s sleaziest classic became a blockbuster.