Bon Scott : Death By Misadventure

On February 19, 1980 the body of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott was discovered in a parked car in East Dulwich. He had spent the night before pounding back whiskies at the Music Machine and had passed out in the car driven by a musician friend named Alistair Kinnear.

"I just could not move him," Kinnear told The Standard,"so I covered him with a blanket and left him a note to tell him how to get up to my flat in case he woke up.

"I went to sleep and it was later in the (following) evening when I went back out to the car, and I knew something was wrong immediately."

The cause of death was acute alcohol poisoning and was ruled death by misadventure.  Despite the death of Scott, 33, AC/DC promised to continue and entered Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas in April with Geordie singer Brian Johnson to record Back in Black.

About ten years older than his bandmates, Scott was the lascivious young uncle that winked and strutted throughout the five years he fronted the band. Classic Rock named Scott the greatest rock frontman of all time, writing:

‘Bon had a riveting presence. He was cocky but he wasn’t conceited. He was vulgar but he wasn’t boorish. He was tough as nails but with a soft white underbelly. He was a hero, an icon, but he was also the guy next door, lying underneath a greasy motorbike with a spanner in his hand.’