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Bon Scott
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Australian singer (1946–1980)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
Discography
- Times Escape2013
- Constant 292013
- Dark Mind2013
- Complex Silence 362013
- Like a Pelican of the Wilderness2013
- Desert Winds2013
- Rain 12013
- Seeking Rest2013
- The Path to the Gods2013
- Into the Eternal Darkness2013
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Bon Scott was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott was born on 9th July, 1946, in Kirriemuir, Scotland. At the age of 6, Scott's family emigrated to Australia. He grew up in Perth, learned drums and bagpipes in the local Scots pipe band. He always had problems with rules, and this resulted with his dropping out of school at the young age of 15.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 64,899x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,764x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,535x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,499x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
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Quotes
- “When I was married, my wife suggested I write a song about her. So I wrote 'She's Got Balls' and then she divorced me!”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ronald Belford Scott , ( 1946-07-09 ) 9 July 1946, Forfar , Angus , Scotland
- Origin
- Fremantle , Western Australia
- Died
- 19 February 1980 (1980-02-19) (aged 33), East Dulwich , London, England
- Genres
- Rock and roll blues rock hard rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Years active
- 1964–1980
- Formerly of
- AC/DC Fraternity The Valentines The Spektors
- Spouse
- Irene Thornton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1977 )
- Website
- bonscottofficial .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- bonscottofficial.com
- Image
- Grenoble79 01 (cropped).jpg
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- Bon Scott
- date of birth
- 1946-07-09
- date of death
- 1980-02-19
- name in native language
- Bon Scott
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- birth name
- Ronald Belford Scott
- pseudonym
- Bon Scott
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
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Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian singer who was the second lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. In the July 2004 issue of Classic Rock, Scott was ranked number one in a list of the "100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time". Hit Parader ranked Scott as fifth on their 2006 list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Vocalists of all time.
Born in Forfar in Angus, Scotland, Scott spent his early years in Kirriemuir. He moved to Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six, living in Melbourne for four years before settling in the Perth neighbourhood of Fremantle, Western Australia, then Adelaide, South Australia in his later years. Scott formed his first band, the Spektors, in 1964 and became the band's drummer and occasional lead vocalist. He performed in several other bands, including the Valentines and Fraternity, before replacing original AC/DC lead singer Dave Evans in 1974.