TED ALBERT: Head of J Albert & Son, the music publishing company that became a record label, too. In its 1970s heyday, the label was headed by the Vanda/Young production team and included not only AC/DC but also John Paul Young and the Ted Mulry Gang. Ted Albert died suddenly in 1990 … ANGELS: They formed a triumvirate at Alberts with AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, and are an Australian pub rock institution … “UNCLE” JOHN AYERS: Harmonica player in Fraternity. He subsequently formed Adelaide R&B outfit Mickey Finn … ANNA BABA: Lived with Bon in London for the last few weeks of his life. After he died, she returned to Japan and went to work in medical publishing … ROB BAILEY: AC/DC’s original bassist. He was sacked after the recording of the band’s first album. Later involved in new age music … BLACKFEATHER: Archetypal progressive rockers of the early ’70s. Bon plays recorder on their classic 1971 album At the Mountains of Madness … CORAL BROWNING: Michael Browning’s sister, who worked for him and AC/DC in London, then America, until Peter Mensch took over management of the band in mid-1979. She later worked for Virgin Music in Los Angeles … MICHAEL BROWNING: Managed AC/DC from late 1975 to mid-1979. He’d previously run clubs (Sebastians, then the Hard Rock Cafe), and managed Doug Parkinson and Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Australia’s biggest band in the early ’70s. When he was sacked by AC/DC, he returned to Australia and set up Deluxe Records, which gave INXS, among others, its first recording deal. He went on to manage more bands, the most successful of which was Noiseworks … PHIL CARSON: General manager of Atlantic Records in London in 1976, and responsible for signing AC/DC to the label. Now based in Los Angeles, where he heads Victory Music, he was reluctant to be interviewed for this book … HELEN CARTER: Girlfriend of Bon’s in Sydney in 1975/76. She went on to become a musician, initially as bassist/songwriter with Do-Re-Mi, who enjoyed Australian hits such as “Man Overboard” in the ’80s … MICK COCKS: Rhythm guitarist in Rose Tattoo. After leaving the band in 1979, Mick landed in London, where he saw a lot of Bon before his death. He subsequently returned to Australia and rejoined Rose Tattoo … COLD CHISEL: Fronted by Jimmy Barnes—Bon disciple, fellow Scot and replacement for Bon in the last Fraternity lineup—Cold Chisel defined Australian pub rock in the late ’70s/early ’80s. As if punk never happened. When he went solo, Barnes became an Oz stadium rock icon … PERRY COOPER: A newcomer at Atlantic Records in New York in 1977 when AC/DC had just joined the label, as director of special projects he became one of the band’s first champions there. He often went out on the road with them, and always roomed with Bon … JOHN DARCY: A roadie for the Valentines in 1969, he remained friends with Bon for years afterward. He later worked with numerous other bands before getting out of the business, and today lives with his family in the hills outside Melbourne … MAL EASTICK: Lead guitarist in Adelaide band Stars, who supported AC/DC on their controversial return Australian tour in 1976. Today, he plays the blues … EASYBEATS: After the Seekers and the BeeGees, Australia’s most successful ’60s pop export. But the band could not follow up its one international hit, “Friday on My Mind,” leaving songwriting/production partnership George Young and Harry Vanda to fend for themselves … MARK EVANS: AC/DC’s bass player from 1975 to 1977. Went on to play with other bands, including Finch and Heaven, before retiring from the stage gracefully and working in a music shop, which only interrupts his golfing schedule. Some ten years after being dismissed from AC/DC, won an out-of-court settlement with Alberts over unpaid royalties … FLYING CIRCUS: Classically schizophrenic Australian act of the late ’60s: as a singles band they were pure bubblegum but as a live act/album band were progressive folk-country-rock. Found some success in Canada in the early ’70s … JOHN FREEMAN: Drummer in Fraternity, went on to play with Uncle and Bruce Howe in Adelaide R&B institution Mickey Finn, and today performs as an acoustic delta-blues guitarist … JOE FUREY: Met Bon and Silver Smith in Sydney in the summer of 1977/78 and, living in London thereafter and working for UFO, remained friends with both of them … CHRIS GILBEY: Worked at Alberts as a promotions man and later general manager between 1973 and 1977. Went on to become one of the most powerful figures in the Australian music industry … RICHARD GRIFFITHS: AC/DC’s first booking agent in Britain, now CEO of Epic Records in New York … PETER HEAD (né Beagley): Keyboardist for Headband, and a contemporary and friend of Bon’s in Adelaide in the early ’70s. Under the name the Mount Lofty Rangers, he cut a number of tracks with Bon in 1974 … MAUREEN HENDERSON: Lived around the corner from the Scotts in Fremantle when Bon was growing up. She taught Bon to kiss … HAMISH HENRY: A wealthy Adelaide patron of the arts who acted as benefactor to Fraternity, and managed the band. He later went back to the family business, but then up and moved to Queensland, where he is now a successful manufacturer of children’s playground equipment … BRUCE HOWE: Leader of Fraternity. He steered the band on after Bon left, with Jimmy Barnes as singer, but not for long. Later rejoined Uncle in Mickey Finn, an R&B outfit which later also numbered John Freeman. Summoned by Jimmy Barnes to join his band after Cold Chisel split, he soon returned to Adelaide. He still lives on the Peninsula, just down the road from the Largs Pier Hotel, and plays with the Mega Boys … DAVE JARRETT: Promotions man for WEA Records in London in the late ’70s, his responsibilities included AC/DC. Worked for Hot Records in Sydney in the ’80s, before moving to Adelaide, where he died in his sleep in 2000 … IAN JEFFERY: AC/DC’s tour manager for many years, from 1977 until the mid-’80s, he later went back to work for Peter Mensch, with Metallica. He lives in Japan, and eluded being interviewed for this book … ALISTAIR KINNEAR: Was with Bon on the night he died. After one interview, he faded from public view and moved to Spain’s Costa del Sol, where he still lives and plays music. He resurfaced in 2005 and gave a public statement that finally put to rest the conspiracy theories surrounding Bon’s death … HERM KOVAC: Played drums in the Ted Mulry Gang. Today, he runs Ramrod Recording Studios in Sydney … DENNIS LAUGHLIN: Original lead singer in Sherbet, and AC/DC’s first, short-lived manager. Today, manages a hi-fi store in Geelong …LOVED ONES: The most mercurial of ’60s Australian bands, Melbourne’s Loved Ones exploded with a handful of classic hits, then fell apart … VINCE LOVEGROVE: Met Bon in Perth in the early ’60s, and with him formed the Valentines. They remained friends and both lived in Adelaide in the early ’70s, Vince working as a journalist and later an agent, in which capacity he was instrumental in Bon joining AC/DC. Went on to manage Cold Chisel briefly, before moving into TV as a producer, and then back to rock’n’roll, as manager of the Divinyls. In the mid-’80s, his second wife Suzie and son Troy, were stricken with AIDS, and he devoted himself to nursing them—they both subsequently died—and to documenting the experience in films and a book in the hope of raising awareness and understanding of the disease. After working as a journalist in London for some years, has now returned to Australia … LOBBY LOYDE: Australia’s Godfather of Punk, guitar anti-hero Lobby Loyde started out in Brisbane blues-boom band the Purple Hearts, went on to help rebuild Billy Thorpe’s Aztecs and then formed the Coloured Balls, the missing link between the Aztecs and AC/DC. He died in 2007 … MASTERS APPRENTICES: Led out of Adelaide by Scottish immigrant Jim Keys, the Masters Apprentices were one of the great Australian ’60s bands, a chameleon-like act who went from raw R&B through psychedelia and bubblegum back to country-rock and heavy metal, before breaking up in 1971 and giving AC/DC its first drummer, Colin Burgess … IAN “MOLLY” MELDRUM: Media personality, creator of Countdown, “the oldest teenager in Australia,” and someone whose enthusiasm for rock’n’roll—particularly Australian rock’n’roll—shows no sign of abating … PETER MENSCH: As part of New York management company Leber & Krebs, usurped Michael Browning’s position as manager of AC/DC in 1979. Was himself subsequently sacked, but since his other charges have included Def Leppard and Metallica, he has remained successful. He declined to be interviewed for this book … WYN MILSON: Played guitar alongside Bon in his first band, the Spektors, and went on with Bon to join the Valentines. Later became a live sound engineer, a job he still performs at the highest level …TED MULRY: Leader of the Gang, a hitmaker for Alberts throughout the ’70s. He died in 2001 … PAT PICKETT: A wicked friend of Bon’s who managed to attach himself to both Fraternity and AC/DC. He learnt the ropes as a roadie and today enjoys almost legendary status as one of that breed’s elder statesmen … ROSE TATTOO: Recommended to Alberts by Bon, Rose Tattoo were among the most ferocious white blues-rock bands the world has ever seen … PHIL RUDD: The drummer in AC/DC initially between 1976 and 1983. After running a recording studio in New Zealand, he rejoined AC/DC in 1994. He politely declined to be interviewed for this book … CHICK & ISA SCOTT: Bon’s parents, who long outlived their oldest boy … GRAEME SCOTT: Bon’s youngest brother, left home to go to sea in the late ’60s, and dropped in and out of Bon’s life according to where either of them was around the world at any one time. Eventually settled in Thailand, where, with his Thai wife, he ran a bar … SAM SEE: Guitarist/keyboardist in Fraternity, after he’d formed Sherbet and left the Flying Circus, and before he rejoined the Circus. He went on to play all around the traps, before recently taking up musical directorship of Australian television Channel 7’s Tonight Live … SHERBET: Australia’s biggest teenybop rock band of the mid-’70s, rivals of Skyhooks and Countdown darlings … MARIA SHORT: Bon’s first real steady girlfriend, whom he lived with on and off, in both Perth and Melbourne between 1965 and 1968, and with whom he always kept in touch. She lives in Perth with her family, and is highly successful in the rag trade … SILVER SMITH (née Margaret Smith): She and Bon lived together in London in 1976 and 1977, and they continued to see each other right up until Bon died. She eventually returned to Adelaide, where she lives in a small bungalow with a large garden, which she shares with her son and two German Shepherds. She has been drug and alcohol free since 1986 …PAM SWAIN: Met Bon in 1979 when she was working for radio station 2JJ, and enjoyed a brief fling with him. Today, she works for ABC-TV … IRENE THORNTON: Bon’s wife. They were married, in Adelaide, in 1972. They separated in 1974, when Bon joined AC/DC, and divorced in 1978, though they remained friends … BILLY THORPE AND THE AZTECS: Manchester-born Billy Thorpe was a show-business veteran by the time he migrated to Brisbane as a kid in the fifties. He went on to lead the Aztecs, who succeeded in traversing two distinct eras of Australian rock’n’roll, first as a ’60s beat sensation, then as ’70s “progressive” blues rockers. Thorpie later moved to the west coast of America where, after recording a few US albums, he became a soft toy manufacturer, before returning to Australia to reclaim his legacy. He published two volumes of memoirs and spearheaded 2002’s “Long Way to the Top” tour. He died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007 … TWILIGHTS: With dual lead singers Glen Shorrock and Paddy McCartney, the Twilights broke out of Adelaide as the Antipodes’ most slavish Beatles acolytes. Shorrock went on to front country-rock supergroup Axiom, then dabbled with the Mount Lofty Rangers, before joining the Little River Band … HARRY VANDA: Formerly of the Easybeats, the passive partner to George Young in the production team that shaped the success of not only AC/DC but also William Shakespeare, John Paul Young, Rose Tattoo, the Angels, and their own recording persona, Flash & the Pan. He refused to be interviewed for this book … MARY WALTON (née Wasylyk, now Renshaw): A dear friend of Bon’s, she met him initially in the ’60s, when the Valentines were based in Melbourne. Then a budding fashion designer, she went on to open her own boutique. Still works in the business, and lives with her kids in Melbourne … ROSS WILSON: A seminal figure in Australian rock, Ross the Boss’s first band, the Party Machine, spawned two early’70s standards, Daddy Cool and Spectrum. He himself went on to produce the ground-breaking Skyhooks, to found Oz Records, and to lead Mondo Rock … STEVIE WRIGHT: Former Easybeats frontman. “Little Stevie,” Bon’s role model in many respects, became one of Australian rock’s most infamous casualties. After following up the “Evie” single and Hard Roadi album with Black-Eyed Bruiser in 1975, he declined into hardcore heroin addiction … ANGUS YOUNG: Lead guitarist in AC/ DC, he refused to be interviewed for this book, although the author did interview him for a RAMcover story in 1990 … GEORGE YOUNG: Formerly of the Easybeats, he was the sixth member of AC/DC, the producer who guided the band from the very first. He refused to be interviewed for this book … JOHN PAUL YOUNG: Starting his singing career around the same time and place as Malcolm Young, the unrelated John Paul Young (aka “Mungy,” “Squeak,” “JPY”) almost replaced Dave Evans in AC/DC. He went on to become an Alberts labelmate and sang the unforgettable Vanda-Young disco-pop classic “Standing in the Rain” … JOHNNY YOUNG: No relation to the Young clan, he began as a ’60s singing sensation, and went on to success as a songwriter and producer (1969’sThe Real Thing, most notably). He also fronted Australian television’s much-loved Young Talent Time between 1971 and 1986 … MALCOLM YOUNG: Rhythm guitarist, he formed AC/DC in 1973. He refused to be interviewed for this book.