Posted on 02/19/2024 6:00:47 PM PST by DoodleBob
… Almost 25 years after Bon Scott’s death, there are still many unexplained events that surround it.
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Author Clinton Walker relates the following story ..: on Monday evening, February 18, 1980, Bon phoned Silver Smith to invite her along to see a band at Dingwalls in Camden, north London. Silver declined, but said she had a friend – Alistair (sometimes spelled Alasdair) Kinnear – who would be delighted to accompany him. In the end, Bon and Kinnear ended up at the Music Machine, a venue just down the road from Dingwalls at the bottom end of Camden High Street, near Mornington Crescent Tube station.
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Events begin to get rather hazy from here on in. The oft-repeated version is that Kinnear drove Bon back to the singer’s flat in Victoria, but a boozed-up Scott had passed out in the car in the meantime, and apparently could not be stirred. So Kinnear then made a diversion to East Dulwich, where he lived in a flat at number 67 Overhill Road. Kinnear parked his car – a tiny, French-built supermini – outside his home, but Bon remained unconscious. He simply couldn’t be shifted.
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Kinnear says he went to bed in the early hours of Tuesday, February 19, and that he didn’t wake until the following evening. “I went to sleep and it was later in the evening [reportedly at 7.45pm] when I went back out to the car, and I knew something was wrong immediately.”
Inside Kinnear’s car, Bon Scott lay dead. "He could not find a comfortable position in the small car," Clinton Walker recounts in his book. "His body was curled around the gearstick, his neck twisted, his dental plate dislodged. The bile rose up in his throat and blocked his asthmatic windpipe."
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Wait, Clint Walker was Cheyenne Bodie.
Must we?
“Bon remained unconscious. He simply couldn’t be shifted.”
They should have Shook him All Night Long.
Gotta complete the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Z39Uqybcw
‘He’s dead Jim’ … the question is, who is Bon ???
Who is/was Bon?
Was he(?) well known in certain suburbs and hamlets?
He overdosed on you
Sad but it’s true
He died before that song was written
1977.....
June 7th I saw Led Zeppelin, opening night at Madison Square Garden- still one of the best days of my life...
December 1st I saw Queen the first time they ever played the Garden on a solo bill...
About a month before i saw Queen i was at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, seats about 5000, to see Rush- A Farewell to Kings tour.
On the ride up we were discussing the warm up band. Some guy says, “I heard they are some mellow band from Australia.”
Yup- none other than AC/DC, complete with Bon Scott running into the crowd with Angus Young on his shoulders at the end of the show....
Everyone was like, “Holy Sh*t!!! What was that??” It was like someone hit you in the back of the head with an iron skillet!!! By the time Rush got on the stage the crowd was exhausted!!!
That was certainly a dirty deed, done dirt cheap.
Bon Scott
Who dat?
Tim Scott’s missing twin?
After all these decades I still think of Brian Johnson as “the new guy”.
Original lead singer for AC/DC
The late Neil Peart said the same thing about himself.
He spent too much time in Sin City
Haha. That’s pretty good there!
I first got into AC/DC when in 1980.
He was shot down in flames
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