Bon Scott

Ronald Belford Scott (July 91946 – February 19 1980), better known as Bon Scott, was the lead singer and frontman of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland; his family relocated to Perth, Australia in 1952.

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By 1970 Scott had already enjoyed some limited success in 1960s rock and roll groups The Spectors and The Valentines, as a singer and sometimes as a drummer as well. Both acts started in Perth, far away from the Australian music industry centres of Sydney and Melbourne. The Valentines toured Australia and also recorded songs by Harry Vanda and George Young of The Easybeats.

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Scott later joined an Adelaide-based progressive rock band named Fraternity, and they were starting to get big-time. Soon, though, the band started to fall apart. In 1973, just after returning home from a tour of England, the band went into a sort of suspended animation. Bon Scott started playing for a little bit with a band called Peter Head's Mount Lofty Rangers. It was after leaving a rehearsal with them that Scott got into a motorcycle accident and was seriously injured. Fraternity ended up reforming, but Scott decided he wouldn't stay with them. They never achieved the kind of success Scott would enjoy with his next band.

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The following year, while doing odd jobs for a man involved in the Adelaide music scene, Scott first met the members of AC/DC, when they passed through on tour. The band was driven by the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, younger siblings of Scott's friend George Young. Scott was impressed by the band's energy and drive, and the naive bandmates were, in turn, quite taken with the experienced frontman. When AC/DC fired singer Dave Evans a few months later, Scott replaced him.

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Known for his heavy drinking binges, Scott was found dead in 1980 in a friend's car, parked outside the friend's South London apartment. The official coroner's report stated "death by misadventure" and found that he had asphyixiated on his own vomit after his neck twisted in the night. At the time of his death, the international press made false accusations about a drug overdose. No traces of illicit substances were found in his system by the coroner. Recent investigations point to a possible cover up on Scott's "Friend's" behalf, and whether or not the circumstances leading to Scott's death were fully accidental.

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Scott is buried in Fremantle Cemetery's Memorial Garden in Australia, in the town where he grew up.

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