Bon Scott Memorial Plaque

A memorial plaque at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, south London, marks the spot where Bon Scott was found dead in a car on the morning of February 19, 1980. Scott had spent the evening at a concert and then drinking at a club with his friend Alistair Kinnear. In the early hours, unable to rouse Scott from the car, Kinnear drove to his own home on Overhill Road and left Scott asleep in the parked vehicle outside, intending to check on him later. When Kinnear returned that afternoon, Scott was unresponsive. He was taken to King's College Hospital and pronounced dead. The cause of death was acute alcohol poisoning.

Overhill Road is a quiet residential street of Edwardian terraces in the East Dulwich neighbourhood of south London -- an ordinary street of the kind that becomes extraordinary only through the accidental fact of what happened on it. Scott had been staying in a flat in the Victoria area of Westminster while preparing for AC/DC's next album; he had no particular connection to East Dulwich beyond his friendship with Kinnear. The plaque acknowledges that this unremarkable address is where the AC/DC era effectively ended.

The plaque has been installed by fans and the local community as a point of acknowledgement rather than a formal heritage designation. East Dulwich is accessible by London Overground from London Bridge and Victoria. The street is a residential area and visitors are asked to be respectful of the current residents. Bon Scott's official last residence was in Victoria; his death occurred here, twelve miles away in someone else's street.