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| Nearly a quarter-century after my biography of Bon Scott, Highway to Hell, came out – nearly forty years since the man himself died – I am still constantly amazed at the way he’s still so alive. A silly book published recently spent more than half its length convolutedly trying to show that there was some sort of foul play in Bon’s death – and all it amounted to was nothing but speculation, conjecture and hearsay, not to mention unreadability. You couldn’t kill Bon Scott that easily! On the other hand I felt flattered recently, maybe more vindicated, when Paul Elliott's megatome AC/DC: For those About to Rock came out and its acknowledgements listed only two of the score of AC/DC-related books, Highway to Hell and Murray Engleheart's AC/DC: Maximum Rock&Roll. That's all you need. So it was no surprise when Richard Syrett asked me to appear as a talking head on his popular podcast Rock’n’Roll Twilight Zone – or was it? Because as the show’s name might suggest, it’s not unaccustomed to entertaining the odd musical conspiracy theory. And yet even then it comes down to much the same conclusions I do regarding Bon’s death and its aftermath. Which are, as I say in the show, that of the two big conspiracy theories, I subscribe to one and not the other. As my book and all my public utterances assert, I do not believe there was any foul play surrounding Bon’s death except maybe neglect, and I do believe there were more than many traces of his contributions on Back in Black but that these went uncredited. You can listen to much talk around these questions and more, from writer Susan Masino and Bon’s good friend Mary Renshaw as well as myself, across two hour-long episodes: |
 Not so surprising either, perhaps, that Bon should become a gay icon, as this new-found collage suggests... |
