Bon Scott is the rock star of the heavy metal of the 70s, the main vocalist of the Australian rock band AC / DC. He gave all the best on stage. The unique timbre of the musician's vocals crystallized as a result of two factors: operations after a motorcycle accident and a long systematic grinding of the throat with undiluted gin.
Bon Scott Biography
The childhood and youth of the future rock musician
Bon Scott, full name Ronald Belford Scott, was born July 9, 1946 in the city of Forfare in eastern Scotland. Father is a hereditary baker and amateur piper. In childhood, the family of the future musician changed many places to stay. First, the city of Kirrimur in Scotland, then in 1952, in search of a better life, along with the post-war stream of emigrants from the UK, the family moved to the southern mainland, to places founded by British settlers. The first country the English flee to is the fifth continent - Australia. In the 1950s, the cities of Australia flourished, it was heard everywhere: “Come to us, everything is fine here! Young Australians, neat houses with kindergartens, modern comfortable cities, honest work and legal rest.” The Scott family stayed in the beautiful Victorian city of Melbourne with beautiful pre-modern buildings. After 4 years, he again moved to a quiet and calm city - Fremantle port, located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia).
Bon's interest in music arose as a child. In this city, Bon Scott learned to play the drums and bagpipes as part of a local orchestra in which his father played. Until 10 years old, the boy was obedient and obedient. In adolescence, Bon Scott began to change not for the better. The leadership of the school in which Bon studied, was forced to say goodbye to the young man for various violations of behavior. At the age of 15, he was under police supervision, escaped, gave false names and addresses, possession, theft. Scott was taken more than once to the reception center of the Fremantle prison, and he also spent 9 months in a juvenile educational institution.
Music career
At 17, Bon Scott, at the request of his father, worked at his bakery, selling hot rolls. At this time, he began to sing and knock on drums in the amateur blues band Spekters. For some time, Scott served in the Australian military, but was fired due to poor social integration.
At the age of 21, Scott became one of the lead vocalists of the Valentina band. The song "Every Day I Have To Cry" - hit the top five of the local hit parade. Bon was then arrested for possession of marijuana for 3 months. After leaving the conclusion, the musician moved to Adelaide, where he joined the group "Freternit", which played blues rock. The band boomed musical successes and she moved to the largest and oldest city in Australia - Sydney. There were recorded new albums "Lovestock" and "Flaming Galah." When Bon Scott was 25 years old, the group successfully traveled on tour in Europe.
In 1973, after returning from a tour of England, Scott had an accident on a motorcycle and lay in a coma for 18 days, one testicle was removed on the operating table. Meanwhile, the Freternit band broke up.
Bon Scott and AC / DC
In 1974, after recovering, Bon began to work as a driver for beginner rockers - AC / DC. One day, guitarist Angus Young accidentally heard their driver bark a song. A week later, Scott sang her in the studio. Scott liked the band's energy and aspiration, and the young AC / DC members were in turn fascinated by the experienced Scott. The guy was standing - tattoos, a slightly damaged jaw, an earring in the form of a shark tooth. The hooligan lifestyle came to the liking of the group, Bon Scott was recognized as his own. Together with Angus Young, 9 years younger, they perfectly found a common language, discussing the arrangements of new heavy compositions. Under AC / DC, Scott proved to be, by some accounts, the most charismatic vocalist Australia has ever seen. His courageous and at the same time charming image attracted the attention of the audience of both girls and boys.
In 1975, the band recorded their debut LP album "High Voltage". Scott co-authored the songs It's a Long Way to the Top, TNT, High Voltage, Highway to Hell and others.
In 1976, on the first AC / DC tour in England, spectators were awaited by a deadly circus performance: swinging on a trapeze, Scott caught Young in his arms and sawing solo, while both were completely drunk. They could swear live, break their lips on the microphone in the blood, perform in gorilla attire. AC / DC did not leave the pages of the socialite.
Death of the frontman
February 19, 1980 Bon Scott in a place with a friend Alistair Kinner rested in one of the bars in London. Having drunk well, we drove home by car, where the famous musician fell asleep. A friend did not wake him, left in the car. And in the morning I found him dead. At the hospital, doctors ascertained death by negligence. An autopsy of Bon on February 22 showed that half a bottle of whiskey remained in his stomach. As it turned out later, Bon Scott had problems with the liver, and the frontman did not listen to the recommendations of the doctor.
