Ronald Belford Scott was born on July 9, 1946 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, UK. In 1952, the Scott family relocated to Australia. Bon's strong distaste for authority led him to quit his studies at the age of 15. Bon's earliest musical efforts were both on vocals and drums. His first "real" job in the music business was in a pop band called The Valentines, whose single "Every Day I Have To Cry" reached the top five of the local charts. On September 1969, however, The Valentines were arrested for dope possession which shattered their clean-cut image beyond repair, and the band officially called it quits a few months later. Within six months of The Valentine's dissolution, Bon joined a new blues-rock band called Fraternity; the efforts of the band to achieve some success in Europe were largely fruitless and they returned to Australia slightly disillusioned. After returning home, Bon was involved in a motorbike accident that left him in a coma for three days and in the hospital for several months, ending his association with Fraternity. Now based in Adelaide, Bon was reduced to taking on casual work until the day he was offered the chance to drive the bus for this new and really young rock band called 'AC/DC' got into sharp focus and the next five and a half years saw them getting more popular with each passing year, ultimately achieving world-wide success with their million-selling "Highway To Hell". The band's legendary status is believed to be largely due to the period spent with Bon Scott as the band's lead singer. Yet Bon Scott was also an excessive drinker and this would ultimately lead to tragedy. After a night of heavy drinking, Bon died in a car parked outside a friend's flat in South London sometime on February 19, 1980. He was prononced dead on arrival at Kings College Hospital. Bon Scott lies in the Fremantle Cemetery's Memorial Garden in Australia.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of AC/DC ) on March 10, 2003.
Although it is widely believed that Bon was born in Kirriemuir, in reality, he came into this world some six miles away in the town of Forfar - at the Fyfe Jamieson Maternity Home to be precise.
Following his untimely death, he was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family at Fremantle Cemetery in Fremantle, Western Australia.
On February 24, 2008, a bronze statue of Scott was unveiled at Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Western Australia. The statue portrays Scott singing atop a Marshall amplifier.
Parents are Charles Belford "Chick" Scott and Isabella Cunningham Mitchell.
Has two younger brothers: Derek Scott (born 1949) and Graeme Scott (born 1953).
There was no vocal training in my background, just a lot of good,whiskey.
Then she divorced me. .
