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Scott is the subject of several books including two biographies by Jesse Fink - Bon: The Last Highway (2017, updated in 2018 and 2022) and Bon: Notes from the Highway (2024) - and Clinton Walker's Highway to Hell (1994 and updated in 2015 and 2023). Fink's books claim that Scott died from a lethal combination of alcohol and heroin, while Walker ...
It is the first track of the group's second album T.N.T., released only in Australia and New Zealand on 8 December 1975, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott. The song combines bagpipes with hard rock instrumentation; in the middle section of the song there is a call and response between the bagpipes and guitar. [ 2 ]
Thunderstruck is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released as the lead single from their twelfth studio album The Razors Edge (1990). It peaked at No. 4 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart , No. 1 in Finland, and No. 5 on the US " Billboard " Album Rock Tracks chart.
Bon Scott was then able to later repair the broken cassette for further use. [19] "Highway to Hell" quickly took on a life of its own just after the death of Bon Scott in 1980. Just months after the album was first released to the public, Scott was found dead in his car, apparently having drunk himself to death.
Evans singing with Rohan Moran. Evans also released a live recording, A Hell of a Night, which was a memorial gig for Bon Scott. It was recorded on the 20th anniversary of Scott's death, with Melbourne AC/DC tribute band Thunderstruck. Since then he has released six solo CDs.
The issue of whether Scott's lyrics were used, uncredited, on the album remains an enduring topic of debate. In author Jesse Fink's biography, Bon: The Last Highway, Scott's girlfriend Margaret "Silver" Smith (died 2006) claims Scott called her on the evening before his death to invite her out to celebrate writing lyrics for Back in Black.
If You Want Blood You've Got It (written as just If You Want Blood) is the first live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and their only live album released during Bon Scott's lifetime. It was originally released in the UK and Europe on 13 October 1978, in the US on 21 November 1978, and in Australia on 27 November 1978. [ 2 ]
Known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC's tribute to their former singer Bon Scott.His replacement Brian Johnson recalled to Mojo magazine in 2009 that when the band asked him to write a lyric for this song, "they said, 'it can't be morbid – it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.