Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DCÕs Back In Black

Jesse Fink

ECW Press, Nov 7, 2017 - Music - 440 pages

The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock

In death, AC/DCÕs trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as ÒBonÓ grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth?

At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special Ñ and unlikely Ñ friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time.

Leaving no stone unturned in a three-year journey that begins in Austin and ends in London, Fink takes the reader back to a legendary era for music that saw the relentless AC/DC machine achieve its commercial breakthrough but also threaten to come apart. With unprecedented access to BonÕs lovers, newly unearthed documents, and a trove of never-before-seen photos, Fink divulges startling new information about BonÕs last hours to solve the mystery of how he died.

Music fans around the world have been waiting for the original, forensic, unflinching, and masterful biography Bon Scott so richly deserves Ñ and now, finally, itÕs here.

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LibraryThing Review

User Review  - ThomasPluck - LibraryThing

An exhaustive but not exhausting lol at the life and death of one of the greatest rock frontmen to ever belt out a tune. A must read for fans, especially if the lyrics of Back in Black sound a wee bit too familiar...

Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Fink (The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC) leaves no stone unturned in this deep biography of Bon Scott, the original AC/DC front man. Fink focuses on AC/DC’s run from 1977 to Scott’s death in ...

About the author

Jesse Fink was born in London in 1973. He is the author of The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, which was released in more than 20 countries. Bon: The Last Highway is his fourth book. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and S o Paulo, Brazil, with his wife and daughter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DCÕs Back In Black
• Author: Jesse Fink
• Publisher: ECW Press, 2017
• ISBN: 177305113X, 9781773051130
• Length: 440 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; Music / Genres & Styles / Rock; Music / Individual Composer & Musician