Bad Boy Boogie

- Blurb -

Australia has produced any number of great rock and roll frontmen and women. But none has left quite the same mark as AC/DC' s Bon Scott. No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called his words ' toilet poetry' , his ' dirty ditties' . Everything Scott delivered, either on stage or in the studio, was done with a nod and a wink and the biggest grin this side of Luna Park. Scott was, in some ways, rock' s answer to Paul Hogan, a true Aussie larrikin. He could also vividly depict life on the road, best heard in the classics ' Long Way to the Top' and ' Highway to Hell' . When he first appeared on Countdown in 1975, as AC/DC rocked ' Baby Please Don' t Go' , the impression he left was indelible. The ugliest schoolgirl to ever appear on the small screen, Scott was a mess of tattoos and pigtails, wearing an awkwardly short skirt, all the while puffing on a ciggie. His bandmates, not just the audience, were in hysterics. The video quickly became part of Oz rock folklore. Scott was always the joker in the AC/DC pack. He' d happily pose for a photographer with a joint dangling from his lips or be interviewed in cut-off shorts with a banana provocatively stuffed into his waistband. Anything to elicit a laugh. The off-stage stories surrounding Scott are the stuff of legend. A survivor of a weekend spent with Bon at the Squire Inn at Bondi said that ' it was like a scene out of Fellini' s Satyricon' . Previous biographies have concentrated on the dark side of Bon Scott - especially his premature death at the age of 33 - but this is the first to focus on the man' s remarkable gifts as a lyricist, frontman and rascal. In short, the real Bon Scott.