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

· Bolinda · Narrated by Simon Harvey
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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 bestseller 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 1977–80 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.

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Jesse Fink is the author of five non–fiction books and has been published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages – Estonian, Lithuanian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Danish, Serbian and Russian. He was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised and educated in Sydney, Australia, by his Australian parents. After working for five years as senior editor of non-fiction at HarperCollins Publishers, Fink won several sportswriting awards as a journalist for Inside Sport magazine, which he served as deputy editor from 2003 to 2006. In 2003 he was nominated for a Walkley Award for Coverage of Sport. In 2006, Fink began writing daily soccer blogs for Fox Sports Australia. The following year he wrote his first book, 15 Days in June, the story of Australia’s performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and its forgotten history in Asian football.

Bio supplied by narrator himself (Oct 2017): Born in Sydney in 1969, Simon Harvey’s whole career has revolved around the spoken word. His early years on country radio saw him become the youngest networked talkback host in Australia. This led to his true love, voice acting; since heard on thousands of TV and radio campaigns, narrations and more across Australia and beyond. From time to time he also appears on screen as an actor and presenter.

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