WA: Bon Scott statue to be unveiled

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2008
WA: Bon Scott statue to be unveiled

PERTH, Feb 22 AAP - A life-size bronze statue of legendary hard-living AC/DC frontman
Bon Scott will be unveiled in Perth this weekend.

The statue will be revealed at the Aussie Rock Celebration concert in suburban Claremont
on Sunday before being placed permanently at Fisherman's Wharf in Fremantle, where the
singer grew up.

Scott was just 33 when found dead in February 1980 from acute alcohol poisoning after
a night out in London.

He was later buried at Fremantle Cemetery.

West Australian Bon Scott Fan Club president Doug Thorncroft, who …