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Bon Scott
July 9, 1946 - February 19, 1980 |
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Belford Scott was born on July 9, 1946 in the town of Kirriemuir Scotland.
In 1952, his family moved to Perth Australia. By 1970 Scott already had success in various Perth-based rock and R&B groups (The Spektors, The Valentines), as a singer and sometimes, drummer.
In the early 1970s his band Fraternity seemed to be well on its way to fame and fortune. In 1973, just after returning to Adelaide from touring England, Scott was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in which he lost his left testicle. Fraternity continued on without him but never achieved the kind of success Scott would enjoy with his next band. The following year, while working as a roadie and part-time chauffeur in the local Adelaide music scene, that Scott first met the members of the Sydney-based band AC/DC. The band was driven by the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, younger siblings of Scott's friend George Young of The EasyBeats. Scott was amazed by the band's energy and drive, and the naive band-mates were, in turn, quite taken with the experienced front-man When singer Dave Evans got fired from AC/DC a few months later, the band knew who they wanted. Bon Scott joined AC/DC near the end of 1974. Scott, known for his heavy drinking binges, was found dead in a friend's parked car outside his friend's apartment in south London. He had suffocated on his own vomit. He was 33. Scott is buried in Fremantle Cemetery's Memorial Garden in Australia, the town where he grew up. |
