Bon: Notes from the Highway

When it was published in 2017, Jesse Fink’s Bon: The Last Highway became an international sensation. A 500-page biography that told the story of Bon Scott’s last three years touring America with his band, AC/DC, and then his mysterious death in London, Bon was published in Australia, the UK, USA, Brazil, Japan, Sweden, Germany and France. It has sold tens of thousands of copies around the world and is now recognised as the definitive biography of AC/DC’s talismanic frontman from its golden period of 1975 to 1980.

Fans have been clamouring for more to the Bon Scott story and Fink, author of two books on AC/DC (his first was the 2013 bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, published in 16 territories), is now recognised as the foremost Bon Scott expert in the world. Fink’s Bon Scott Forum group on Facebook has tens of thousands of active members. His two AC/DC biographies are the highest selling AC/DC biographies ever published and collectively have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.

Bon: Notes from the Highway explores in greater detail the most significant relationship he had with a woman during his life: muse and recluse Silver Smith, who died in 2016 and granted the author her last ever interviews. The full interviews with Silver are published here for the first and only time. Fink also has a heated encounter with Peter Perrett of The Only Ones and discovers important new information about Alistair Kinnear and Kinnear’s involvement in what happened to Bon on the night he died. It draws a close to the investigation Fink has led into Bon’s death, confirming his original findings.

The book features memories of Bon from Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony (Van Halen); the late Paul Raymond, Paul Chapman and Pete Way (UFO); Dave Meniketti and the late Joey Alves (Y&T); the late Scott Kempner (The Dictators); Kenny Soule (Nantucket); Stefan Kaufmann (Accept); Brad Sinsel (TKO); Jeff Carlisi (38 Special); and K. K. Downing (Judas Priest), and many more.

Released 50 years after Bon joined AC/DC in 1974, Bon: Notes from the Highway leaves no stone unturned in Fink’s quest to understand Bon Scott, the real man. As he did with Bon: The Last Highway, Fink has done it again with Bon: Notes from the Highway. It’s the perfect accompaniment to the definitive biography of the AC/DC legend and the final instalment of Fink’s AC/DC trilogy.