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Bon Scott performing with AC/DC at the Marquee Club, London, 12th May 1976.
Watch remastered HD footage of Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC performing Jailbreak live in London in 1976

By Stef Lach Published

AC/DC have released remastered high-definition video of their 1976 performance of Jailbreak in London

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Bon Scott wags his finger art the camera
"He wanted to stay up and party. Bon just wanted to keep the party going": What really happened on the night Bon Scott died?

By Geoff Barton Published

Mystery surrounds Bon Scott's death to this day: Classic Rock looks back at Bon’s last hours, the world he moved in and the disappearance of the last man to see him alive

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Bon Scott in 1976
"I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

By Paul Elliott Published

Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems

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Queen’s Freddie Mercury, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, AC/DC’s Bon Scott and Little Richard onstage
“He got onstage and preached rock’n’roll, which was very much the inspiration for what I did”: 30 musicians on the singers who changed their life

By Classic Rock Published

Paul Stanley, Joe Elliott, Lars Ulrich, Geddy Lee and more on their personal kings and queens of the microphone

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AC/DC, 1981
AC/DC's Brian Johnson shoots down the rumour that Bon Scott wrote lyrics for Back In Black: "I want to put this baby to bed"

By Paul Brannigan Published

Bon Scott did not write any lyrics for Back In Black, Brian Johnson insists, despite what any Aussie writer might claim

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Country rock, a crash and a coma: the story of Bon Scott's life as a Mount Lofty Ranger

By Rod Yates Published

Before he joined AC/DC, Bon Scott was in country rockers the Mount Lofty Rangers, until a near fatal crash. This is the story

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Official Bon Scott website launched to celebrate his 75th birthday

By Fraser Lewry Last updated

Angus Young says he has fond memories of AC/DC legend Bon Scott, who would have turned 75 today, as musicians pay tribute

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Fraternity
Late AC/DC singer Bon Scott's prog rock past unveiled in new box set

By Jerry Ewing Published

Australian prog rockers Fraternity, who featured a pre-AC/DC Bon Scott, have three-disc box set released in January

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Tribute to AC/DC's Bon Scott will blaze a real Highway To Hell across Australia

By Scott Munro Published

The 2020 Perth Festival will see a 10km stretch of road closed and transformed into a highway of AC/DC-themed entertainment

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AC/DC legend Bon Scott celebrated at Scotland’s oldest sweet shop in Kirriemuir

By Scott Munro Published

The Star Rock Shop in Kirriemuir creates Hell Balls to celebrate this weekend’s Bonfest - and to mark Highway To Hell’s 40th anniversary

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