sexta-feira, fevereiro 05, 2010
Last man to see late AC/DC frontman missing at sea for three years
THE last man to see AC/DC frontman Bon Scott alive is missing and feared dead, adding another chapter to one of rock's most tragic tales.
Alistair Kinnear left Scott in his car to sleep off a night of excess during a freezing London winter, and returned to find his friend dead.
On the 30th anniversary of Scott's death, Kinnear is at the centre of his own mystery after disappearing with a yacht on the way to Spain.
If dead, he takes with him the only account of Scott's final hours, which his family says haunted him throughout his life.
The musician had set sail on 13m wooden-hull sloop Danara from Marseille, France, with two men in July 2006. They were heading to Spain, then vanished.
"We tried to get the coast guard and everybody else to look, but nobody could find anything," son Daniel said yesterday. "So he's missing, not legally declared dead. We have to wait seven years for that to happen."
Daniel describes his father as a "peaceful and calm individual", who had been disturbed by Scott's death at age 33. He died in Kinnear's car after a night at the Music Machine club in Camden Town on February 20, 1980.
Five years ago he came forward to detail the night's events, confirming he had driven Scott home.
During the drive he noticed Bon had "drifted into unconsciousness" and, unable to lift him out of the car, he left him for the night.
"I put the front passenger seat back so that he could lie flat, covered him with a blanket, left a note with my address and phone number on it, and staggered upstairs to bed," he told Classic Rock magazine.
A friend told him in the morning that the car was empty, but later that night he "was shocked to find Bon still lying flat in the front seat, obviously in a bad way".
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