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Bon: The Last Highway
- The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
- Narrated by: Simon Harvey
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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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.
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- Karen O'neill
- 12-09-21
Such a sad loss
It was repetive throughout,but it was a great story of a legend who made acdc
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- Paul
- 21-05-20
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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- ANDY GALLAGHER
- 16-05-18
Great Insight
Very sad but informative. For all AC/DC fans. A great talent gone too soon. RIP Bon.
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- londonline
- 08-03-19
Learnt a little bit it felt like an ever repeated account
I admire what the audio book set out to do, but for me it felt like a short story stretched out. A few things were new to me but the accounts of Bon were forever repeated to the point where I was ‘yes...I’ve heard this fact or story a few times now within this audio book...I got it’
It’s clearly be written and researched by someone who wanted to write the definitive and full account on Bon’s life and I have to say the author has achieved that. But it’s a l-o-n-g account repeating many previously stories that have already been told within this audiobook.
I did find the narrator a little false, annoying in parts and obviously reading from a script. The guitar riffs used to signal a new chapter are A) cheap and B) an obvious attempt to mimic Highway to Hell without paying a royalty!
I think this would read better than it does as an audio book. Which I hope the author is in agreement with.
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- Big Phil
- 13-04-21
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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- Robert Hughes
- 26-04-20
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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- Bill
- 07-12-17
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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- Adam Phipps
- 05-08-20
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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- MR DEAN
- 14-11-18
Bon
Thank you Jesse
You did him proud really enjoyed it
Always there will be Bon
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- Andy
- 29-04-19
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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