AC/DC - Bon Scott Fans Around The World Flocking To Perth For 30th Anniversary Of His Death
February 17, 2010, 14 years ago
Daile Pepper from Watoday.com.au is reporting:
Bon Scott fans from all over the world are flocking to Perth on Friday for the 30th anniversary of the AC/DC front man’s death.
The appeal of spending the day paying their respects at Scott’s grave in Fremantle and having pictures taken with his statue in Fishing Boat Harbour on the occasion has proved too powerful a pull to resist for fans from all over Europe, America and the UK.
Most are staying to see the band rock out at in Scott’s hometown at Subiaco Oval on March 6 or 8, making this the perfect time for AC/DC fans to visit Western Australia.
Scott’s mother Isa, now in her 90s, and one of his siblings live in Perth, and are known to be intensely private. It remains to be seen whether they will visit his grave on this major anniversary of his death.
Scott died in London during a tour at the age of 33.
Bon Scott WA fan club founder Doug Thorncroft, who has organised a tribute gig night at the Railway Hotel on Friday, said he expected hundreds of fans to visit the grave and statue on Friday.
"Every February we do something to commemorate the occasion," he said from Sydney where he is preparing the see the band play on Thursday night."People will go to the cemetery and pay their respects, then go down to the statue, just generally be there where Bon Scott trod in the past, all those year ago."
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