Bon: The Last Highway

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

By: Jesse Fink

Narrated by: Simon Harvey

Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's 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.

©2017 Jesse Fink (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

disappointed

I was looking for a biography. this is a who done it about his death

great story

The author does a great job on giving all the information you need to come to a conclusion on what happened to the great late Ronnie "Bon" Scott

A must read for any Bon Scott fan

I never knew the details of Bon Scott's death. this book is very enlightening. I never knew how controlling the Young brothers are (or were) either. after reading this book I'm convinced that Bon Scott wrote the lyrics on either part of if not all of Back in Black and was never credited for any of it. the book sometimes reads almost as a "Kennedy conspiracy theory" with all the secrecy following his death. I don't think the police did much investigating at the time of his death because they probably figured he was just another rock star that OD'd. they were probably right to a certain extent but if they had investigated further they might have found some foul play involved... we'll never know now.

it also kind of drags at certain points but overall there's so much research that went into this book that it makes it so interesting. I thought I knew Bon Scott's story, but I had no clue until reading (or listening to) this book! highly recommended!

Scary

The subject matter was riveting.
Keep me on the edge of my seat and provided many unknowns.

The Truth is out there

I’m glad Jesse put time into making this. Youth like me (22) that care get to hear the truth of what happed to one of the worlds best bands.

I’m sure people don’t read as much nowadays but this this book needs more credit then it gets.

Decent book but not what it appears.

Quite a bit of conjecture and reaching on this for what is ultimately a largely ‘so what’ conclusion. The animosity towards the Young brothers leaps off the page yet the author gives only limited details as to why. Most likely answer: the Young brothers didn’t want to participate in a questionably researched book.

Fascinating and somewhat speculative

I enjoyed this book and found the research tremendous. I do feel that it would be easier to follow if I had read it rather than listened to it. I had a hard time telling who was talking because the narrator did not change his voice enough between people.

Dirty Deeds Indeed

What a slog. I thought this would be an interesting look into the long debated topic about whether or not Bon had written (and maybe recorded) some or all of the "Back in Black" album before his untimely passing. There's some of that, but a whole lot more of the author obsessing on his belief that Bon died from heroin. This may have made an interesting magazine article, but to pad it out to this length is a great feat of gritting repetition, conjecture, conspiracy theories (yes, there are several), and extremely tangential references and quotes from people who really have nothing to do with the story being told. If the author thinks this book is somehow fighting to preserve Bon's legacy, he's sadly off target. No one in AC/DC comes out looking good, Bon included. As a matter of fact, if one were to take this volume at face value, it might sully the Bon-era band so much as to turn one off completely. Thank god all those records with Bon are some of the greatest rock and roll ever laid down, and you'd be much better spending your time listening to those instead of this.

Answers

If you are a fan of ACDC then you know of Bon Scott. But do you really know the inside story? This book tells all. At the most pivotal time in the band's history, it's time we know the truth.

This is the book that the Young's don't want you to hear. Sorry, Angus.

Focuses too much on his death.....

and not enough on his life and times in AC/DC. Too long. Not terrible but disappointing.