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  • Bon: The Last Highway

  • The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
  • By: Jesse Fink
  • Narrated by: Simon Harvey
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)
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By: Jesse Fink
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Summary

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

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A very thorough analysis

Can wholeheartedly recommend this book, but only for those like myself that after of the opinion that AC/DC pre 1980 was the band at it's very best, not the commercial machine it is now.

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Eye opening

Great story.. I've loved AC-DC since 1980..I thought I knew the story quite well but this blew it wide open.. Not a recommended read for hard-core Ang and Mal fanatics

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Great Insight

Very sad but informative. For all AC/DC fans. A great talent gone too soon. RIP Bon.

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Glorious Bon Scott..

absolutely fantastic read for true Bon Scott fans the World over..Without a shadow of a doubt casting new evidence regarding Bons shocking early departure and cover up of the truth also omission from credit for back in black..

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Dull and pointless

A very long and boring account of something that happened over 40 years ago, recounted by a bunch of ex heroin addicts. The author goes on about fact but the stories contain many “I think”, “someone told me” and “ I heard” statements. Far from concrete evidence.
Shame, could have been good.

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Such a sad loss

It was repetive throughout,but it was a great story of a legend who made acdc

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The true/untrue story of.a legend

Is it true? Is it made up. You’ll never know, but let’s not try and tarnish the name of a legend. I’m none the wiser.

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At Last the Full Story - I Believe

Being a True Fan of AC/DC
I learnt so much of the History, Trials and Tribulations of a Rockin Band

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Sensationalism

It seems the author has an issue with the young brothers, in fact, it seems like he just wants someone to blame, lots of “evidence” by people now dead.... all the way thru I was left with a bad taste in my mouth, whatever the reason Bon died, he died, recounting stories and pointing fingers will not bring Bon back for his family and friends, and it seems to me, this story has done nothing at all for the family, if anything, I’d personally be totally hurt by this book if he was a relative of mine

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excellent

loved it. An indepth account of the greatest there ever was and probably the most honest account of his sad demise

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