{"id":3891,"date":"2019-02-19T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:26:00","slug":"19th-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"A Touch Too Much – Gone But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On this very day in 1980,\u00a0Ronald Belford<\/b>\u00a0“Bon<\/b>”\u00a0Scott<\/b>\u00a0was found dead in Camden London. Scott was the iconic hellraising singer of AC\/DC and was the epitome of hard rockin, hard-partying rock and roller.\u00a0 Nothing was half measure with Scott. It was alleged that On 15 February 1980, Scott attended a session where Malcolm and Angus Young who were working on the beginnings of two songs that would later be recorded on the\u00a0Back in Black\u00a0album; “Have a Drink On Me” and “Let Me Put My Love Into You” with Scott accompanying on drums rather than singing or writing lyrics.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, Scott had gone with\u00a0Mick Cocks\u00a0to visit their friends the French group\u00a0Trust\u00a0in the Scorpio Sound studio in London where they recorded the album ‘R\u00e9pression’<\/i>; Scott was working on the English adaptation of texts by\u00a0Bernie Bonvoisin\u00a0for the English version of the album. During this visit, the musicians did a jam session of “Ride On”. This improvised session was Scott’s last recording.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometime during the evening of 18 February and early morning of 19 February, Scott passed out and died at the age of 33. He had just visited a London club called the Music Machine (currently known as\u00a0KOKO) at the end of Camden High Street opposite Mornington\u00a0Crescent Tube Station. He was left to sleep in a\u00a0Renault 5\u00a0owned by a friend of Scott’s, Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in\u00a0East Dulwich.<\/sup>\u00a0Later that day, Kinnear found Scott lifeless and alerted the authorities. Scott was taken to\u00a0King’s College Hospital\u00a0in\u00a0Camberwell, where he was pronounced DOA. It sent shockwaves through the industry at the time but the band soldiered on to reach greater success with a new singer (Cough\u00a0Cough) Brian Johnson formerly of the band Geordie.\u00a0 ‘Back In Black’ is one of the biggest selling rock albums of all time but the heart and soul had left the building when Scott passed and the band were never the same again, Scott’s tenure in the band produced\u00a0 over half a dozen classic albums that pioneered boogie rock n roll with an incredible voice Scott will rightfully be remembered as a legend in hard rock.\u00a0 R.I.P Bon.<\/p>\n