Born on a fine morning in July 1946 in the small Scottish town of Kirriemuir, a charming village in the north whose specialty appears to be a strange sort of cocktail of white wine supplemented with berries, Ronald Belfort Scott moved with his parents very young at Fremantle, South West Australia. This is the first time the young Ronald finds himself upside the head, and that's a bad habit that he does not really separate. very young Ronald was nicknamed "Happy" by his classmates, not that he is endowed with an extraordinary spirit of generosity, but rather as a diminutive of "Bones, bones, for those who do not fully mastered the language of Peter Shilton. His colleagues mocked incessantly of his strange Scottish accent, Bon Scott was fighting regularly in the school yard and had acquired a reputation as a tough, hard as a bone, in fact. In fact, he left school at fifteen, became a garage mechanic, electrician, postman, bartender and bus driver, did a little jail for having siphoned gasoline, is trying to enlist in the Australian army but kicked out quickly when officers realize that it is he who is completely siphoned.
In 1964, tired of accumulating small jobs, Bon Scott tries his luck as a rock drummer and founded The Spektors, merging quickly with another local group to give The Valentines, rock'n'roll combo whose glory has been done the first part of The Easybeats in Perth, whose guitarist is none other than ... George Young, older brother of Angus and Malcolm. The Valentines split in 1970 and Bon Scott joined the progressive rock band Fraternity, is the first part of Status Quo and released two albums that we hope never to have to listen one day, two works which now use the guys Guantanamo to admit the evil terrorists. Fortunately, Bon Scott in 1973 was the victim of a terrible motorcycle accident that plunges him into a coma for three days, cell the time it takes Fraternity to find another drummer. So much for the rock.
We are in 1974, Bon Scott just married Irene Thomas, very good too, and works as a bus driver in Adelaide when he meets by chance the two most famous brothers in rock history, and Angus Malcolm Young. Neither one nor two, he starts driving the minibus to Ac / Dc and then replaces the singer Dave Evans a few months later, just before AC / DC did so in 1975 the very electric "High Voltage". With his inimitable stamp and his Scottish accent, Bon Scott brings to Ac / Dc suspicion of madness that was missing yet the group to take off, and Let There Be Rock Powerage then finish installing the Australians as one of the major groups of rock history, before qu'Highway To Hell uprooting everything in its path in 1979. It's good, good is good for morale.
Bon Scott has not so much as to enjoy this brand new success: February 19, 1980, after a very wet night in a London club, he is escorted to his home in his Renault 5 by a certain Alistair Kinnear, who failing to wake him leave pioncer in its crate with a blanket. The next day found him still asleep, he worries and finally takes him to hosto, where his death was found a few minutes later. Fucking car. Bon Scott's death is still surrounded by some mystery, we're talking bulk emission of exhaust gases, hypothermia fatal overdose of heroin and more likely, death by suffocation in his own vomit. The fact is that the body is repatriated illico Bon Scott in Fremantle, where a statue was erected in his likeness and where his tomb is quickly becoming the most visited grave in Australia, becoming in 1998 a monument of national heritage in Australia. It is good?
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