Here are some interesting facts and details about Bon Scott. Bon Scott was born on July 9, 1946 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, to Ronald Belford Scott. When he was six years old, his family decided to move to Melbourne, Australia.
1-Ronald Belford Scott was conceived in Kirriemuir – his stage name was a truncation of the 
expression “Bonnie Scotland.” The second child of Chick and Isa Scott, he touched base in Australia with his family in 1952, and went to the Sunshine Primary School, Melbourne where he took in the recorder. His first open appearance was in certainty playing a recorder two part harmony in a school show at North Fremantle Town Hall. He attempted consoles at home, however had no eagerness for them, then settled on the drums, he likewise took in the bagpipes, yet it was as a vocalist he will dependably be recalled.
2-As a young, Bon had some minor issue with the law, winding up in a kid’s home, and having no important capabilities his life would have added up to nothing on the off chance that he had not devoted himself completely to music. His first band was the Spektors, who played the Perth circuit in 1965, later converging with the Winztons to shape the Valentines in 1966.
3-The first record Bon performed on was “Every Day I Have To Cry”/”I Can’t Dance With You,” which was released by the Valentines in May 1967. He got his first composition credit for “Getting Better,” which was discharged in August 1969 as the B Side of “Scratch Nack Paddy Whack,” the children’s ‘ nursery rhyme/melody, which went down like a lead balloon.
4-Back in his embraced country, Bon was included in an appalling street crash in the wake of riding off on his motorbike drunk. He was fortunate to survive, spending three days in a state of extreme lethargy, however it wasn’t only his bicycle that had smashed, and when he tried out for the Young siblings on the suggestion of ex-Valentine Vince Lovegrove, his marriage was successfully over.
5-Bon turned up for the tryout with turning into the band’s drummer, yet he was to supplant vocalist Dave Evans, who was not up to scratch. It was a chance substitution, and in spite of the fact that the new lineup was not an overnight accomplishment, after they played their first gig with Bon at Brighton-le-Sands Masonic Hall, the new AC/DC never thought back.
6- Their debut album was High Voltage, and their first UK performance was at an open house in Hammersmith; there were 10 individuals in the gathering of people; by their second performance , the spot was pressed. AC/DC went ahead to end up one of the greatest rock groups on the planet, yet unfortunately Bon never lived to get the hero worship he merited. He passed on in London on February 19, 1980, in great hero style, truly drinking himself to death. His body was repatriated, and after cremation his ashes were interned at Fremantle Cemetery.
7-In 1976, AC/DC released an offhanded melody called “Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire)” which was enlivened by a letter Bon composed to Irene not long after joining the band. In a PS to his sibling Graeme he inquired as to whether he could send him $50. Twenty-six years after his death, Bon’s shaving mirror was sold for AUD $12,540, around $9,.200 in American cash
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8-There are two excellent books about the life of Bon Scott: the dedicated biography by Clinton Walker, Highway to Hell: The Life and Death of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott, and Paul Stenning’s AC/DC: Two Sides to Every Glory: The Complete Biography, although in his book, Stenning gives Bon’s date of birth erroneously as September 7, 1946. The correct date is engraved on the plaque that was unveiled in the town of his birth on May 6, 2006 on what was designated Bon Scott Memorial Day, two months before his sixtieth birthday. (thanks, Alexander Baron – London, England, for all above)
9-The last individual who saw Bon Scott alive was Alistair Kinnear, another artist and a companion of Bon’s on and off sweetheart. It was felt that Kinnear vanished or even didn’t exist, however he was reached and met in 2005 by a fan magazine. He had moved to Costa del Sol (Spain) where he began filling in as a performer. Kinnear expressed that he discovered sometime later that Scott was experiencing liver harm which may have contributed to his demise.
10-Scott died in Alistair Kinnear’s auto, yet not in the back as typically expressed. As per Kinnear, he was in the traveler seat which was leaned back. Kinnear likewise didn’t see proof of regurgitation when he conveyed Scott to the healing facility. He was under the presumption Scott died of alcohol poisoning. (much obliged, Nighthawk – Marble Falls, AR)
