BAD BOY BON
“I don’t chase [women]. They chase me.”
– BON SCOTT 1975 –
A few days after his return to Oz [from AC/DC’s 1976/77 UK tour], Bon was hosting an after-party at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne. The band had just played what was intended to be a secret gig at a venue called the Tiger Room at the Royal Oak pub in Richmond ― until word leaked and the space swiftly filled to way beyond capacity. The venue’s hugely popular operator, Laurie ‘Loz’ Richards, stood in the middle of the churning crowd, a satisfied man, as the band rocked some old Chuck Berry and Elvis favourites and the bar became gridlocked with thirsty punters.
Bon had seen little of his second (or was it his third?) hometown since he’d squeezed onto the back of a flatbed truck and blasted “Long Way To
