{"id":31481,"date":"2025-02-19T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-19-1980-ac-dc-frontman-bon-scott-died\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:02:29","slug":"on-this-day-feb-19-1980-ac-dc-frontman-bon-scott-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-19-1980-ac-dc-frontman-bon-scott-died\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 19, 1980: AC\/DC frontman Bon Scott died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-19\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 19, 1980 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bon Scott<\/strong>, frontman and lyricist for Australian rock band <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>, died after a night out\u00a0at a London club. He was 33.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was AC\/DC\u2019s second lead vocalist, replacing lead singer <strong>Dave Evans<\/strong> in 1974.\u00a0Scott\u00a0appeared on the band\u2019s first seven albums, his last being 1979\u2019s <em>Highway to Hell<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by singer <strong>Brian Johnson<\/strong>, whose first album was the band\u2019s iconic\u00a0<em>Back in Black<\/em>, which was released as a tribute to Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was posthumously inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame with AC\/DC in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 19, 1980 &#8230; Bon Scott, frontman and lyricist for Australian rock band AC\/DC, died after a night out\u00a0at a London club. He was 33. The coroner\u2019s report said Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning. Scott was AC\/DC\u2019s second lead vocalist, replacing lead singer Dave Evans in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-19-1980-ac-dc-frontman-bon-scott-died\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}