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  • Bon: The Last Highway

  • The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
  • Written by: Jesse Fink
  • Narrated by: Simon Harvey
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Bon: The Last Highway

Written by: Jesse Fink
Narrated by: Simon Harvey
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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

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should be under fiction

I am a massive Bon Scott fan and am very dissapointed I wasted my time listening to this book. This is more a book of conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated tales told as truths than anything that looks like a biography. the author is clearly just seeking to cash in on one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Do not waste your time or money with this book.

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Awesome !!!!!!

Loved it from start to finish very detailed. Listened to it in 3 days . RIP Bon !!!!!!

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Terrible

Don’t waste your time absolutely crap. This book is all over the place and at times you wonder who the book is even about.

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Bob The Conspiracy highway

I was expecting more of a telling of the story of Bon’s life leading to his death and then the band grieving and ultimately pouring their charged feelings into make Back In Black. But alas it’s nothing more than conspiracy theories about his life and death.
While well read and indeed interesting at times. It was far from what I was hoping.

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Unorganized but okay

Don't get me wrong, you can get a lot from this book, but it seems to be all over the place and can be difficult to follow at times.

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