According to Kinnear, upon arrival at his home, he was unable to move Scott from the car into his home for the night, so he left him in the car overnight to sleep off the effects of the alcohol. Unable to wake Scott early on the evening of 20 February 1980, Kinnear rushed him to King's College Hospital in Camberwell, where Scott was pronounced dead on arrival. Pulmonary aspiration of vomit was cited as the cause of Scott's death, and the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning". Scott's family buried him in Fremantle, Western Australia, the area they emigrated to when he was a boy.
Inconsistencies in the official account of Scott's death and his activities in London before and on the day he died have been addressed in Jesse Fink’s 2017 book Bon: The Last Highway, which contends that Scott died of a heroin overdose and establishes for the first time that there was more than one person with Scott when he went back to Kinnear’s apartment in East Dulwich. In the 2018 update, it is revealed there were up to three people with Scott. The book also debunks the widespread conspiracy theory that Kinnear did not exist by publishing Kinnear’s death certificate issued by a Spanish court in 2015.
Brian Johnson era (1980–2016)
Rebirth (1980–1983)
Following Scott's death, the band briefly considered quitting, but encouraged by the insistence from Scott's parents that he would have wanted them to carry on, they eventually decided to continue, and went about finding a new vocalist. Among the applicants were Allan Fryer of Fat Lip and Gary Pickford-Hopkins who, like Stevie Wright of the Easybeats, were touted by the press as most-certain replacements. Various candidates were considered for his replacement, including: ex-Moxy member Buzz Shearman, who was not able to join because of voice issues, Slade vocalist, Noddy Holder, and ex-Back Street Crawler vocalist Terry Slesser.
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