He was a smalltime criminal… he was also a mailman… Then he was a chauffeur…He drove bands to and from shows. His name was Bon Scott… He went from being one of AC/DC’s driver to their lead singer literally overnight! He jumped on stage one night when AC/DC was playing instrumentals and started singing. Angus Young and his brother Malcolm Young were floored. This guy had chops… They turned their story… their rise to the top of the charts into a song… It’s a Long Way to the Top if You Want To Rock and Roll. the song became so synonymous with Bon Scott that the band stopped performing it when he passed away…Brian Johnson refused to sing it out of respect…the song’s signature sound came from a strange instrument… Bagpipes... The story is next.

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“It’a a Long Way to the top….If you wanna rock n’ roll.”…. If you’ve ever been in a rock band….truer words have never been spoken. The phrase became an autobiography of perseverance and the signature song for Ronald Belford Scott…. better known by his stage name…Bon Scott. Bon was a man who wanted to rock n roll with every fiber of his being, no matter how long it took to get there.

As a teenager, Bon had brushes with law that landed him a ninemonth penance at the Riverbank Juvenile Institution. Before he entered the working class, Bon attempted to join the Australian Army, but was rejected for being “socially maladjusted." Bon Scott took whatever job he could find, just to make enough money to get by, because what he really wanted to do was “rock n’ roll."

He was a postman, a bartender, and a truck packer before he started his band, the Spektors, in 1964, as the drummer, and sometimes lead singer. In ’66, the Spektors merged with another local group, named the Winstons. The Winstons fizzled, and Bon put together his next band The Valentines, where he was a colead vocalist with Vince Lovegrove.

It's hard to imagine, Bon Scott in a bubble gum pop band, but that’s what The Valentines were. Bon & his bandmates wore widecollared shirts & bell bottoms looking more like Herman’s Hermits and playing songs with titles like Nick Nack Paddy Wack.

After the merciful demise of The Valentines, Bon segued to a country/ blues outfit called Fraternity: Fraternity actually became a pretty hot band in the clubs of Sydney & Melbourne, so the guys decided to move to London to build an audience in Europe in ’72. When the group settled in London, there were 18 people residing in the same small house. That included wives, children, and pets. It was the kind of communal existence they lived in Australia, except there was no money coming in at all, and London was a much more expensive place to live than Sydney.

The music scene in London had changed dramatically, by the time Fraternity arrived, It was all about glam rock, and Fraternity couldn’t get arrested. The band was deeply despondent over the lack of interest.