It’s hard to believe, but had his life not been cut so tragically short, AC/DC’s Bon Scott would be turning 80 years old this month. In an alternate universe, is he still fronting AC/DC with his pirate’s smile and larger-than-life stage presence?
AC/DC are still out on the road, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are both older, and they’re both still out there doing it, so I think it stands to reason that Bon probably would be too. Sadly, though, our universe had other plans, and we lost Bon back in 1980, but his legacy remains. And I wager it always will.
This issue, Kurt Squiers, AC/DC expert and creator and host of the Beyond The Thunder podcast, remembers the glorious enigma and contradiction that was Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott in the company of those who knew him, admired him, or spent time with him.
This issue we also talk to Rob Halford about his songwriting and his life in Judas Priest; venture back to the 80s to look at the making of Ozzy’s The Ultimate Sin album; collar Alice Cooper and Joe Perry to talk up their forthcoming Hollywood Vampires tour; go to Canada with The Sheepdogs; chat to Ronnie Wood about the new Rolling Stones album and so much more.