What did AC/DC play at their last show with singer Bon Scott?
27 January 2026, 12:00
The iconic rock frontman died tragically young in February 1980 - here's what he played at his last ever live show with the band on 27th January that year.
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Bon Scott tragically died before his time, aged just 33 years old.
AC/DC's second singer and lyricist from 1974, who is considered one of the greatest frontmen of all time, died of acute alcohol poisoning in the early morning of 19th February 1980.
Just over three weeks earlier, the Scottish-born Australian rocker, whose real name was Ronald Belford Scott, performed one last epic show.
Find out where Bon Scott played his last show with AC/DC and what was on the setlist.
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What was Bon Scott's final show with AC/DC?
Bon Scott and AC/DC's last show took place on 27th January 1980 at the Southampton's Gaumont Theatre in the UK.
The gig, which was the last stop on their tour to promote their Highway To Hell album, was originally scheduled to take. place on 18th December 1979, but was delayed until over a month later.
According to ac-dc.net, this is the "most probable" set list that night:
AC/DC Southampton Gaumont 27th January 1980 setlist
- Live Wire
- Shot Down in Flames
- Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
- Sin City
- Problem Child
- Bad Boy Boogie
- The Jack
- Highway to Hell
- Girls Got Rhythm
- High Voltage
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Rocker
Encore: - T.N.T.
- Let There Be Rock
Bon Scott did have a couple more 'performances' with the band before he passed away, appearing with them on Top Of The Pops on 7th February 1980 to plug Touch Too Much and two days later, they appeared on Spanish TV performing Beating Around The Bush, Girls Got Rhythm and Highway To Hell.
He then went on to join co-founders and brothers Angus and Malcolm Young in the studio on 15th February to work on AC/DC's follow-up to their hugely popular 1979 album Highway To Hell.
Following a night out at London's Music Machine (now KOKO) on Monday 18th February, Scott was found unconscious in the car of his friend Alistair Keener, which was parked in a road in East Dulwich. The singer was taken to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. The coroner's report said that Scott had died of "acute alcohol poisoning" and returned a verdict of "death by misadventure".
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Back In Black, which reached a billion Spotify streams last year, was written as a tribute to the late singer - with replacement vocalist Brian Johnson being tasked to pen the lyrics.
He told MOJO magazine: "They said: 'It can't be morbid – it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.'
"I thought, 'Well no pressure there, then' (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. 'Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.'
"The boys got it though. They saw Bon's life in that lyric."
