
Bon: The Last Highway
The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for £27.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Simon Harvey
-
By:
-
Jesse Fink
About this listen
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 LtdEye opening
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Such a sad loss
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great Insight
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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.
Learnt a little bit it felt like an ever repeated account
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The true/untrue story of.a legend
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I learnt so much of the History, Trials and Tribulations of a Rockin Band
At Last the Full Story - I Believe
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A very thorough analysis
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Glorious Bon Scott..
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You did him proud really enjoyed it
Always there will be Bon
Bon
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
excellent
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.