On 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, 33 at the time, passed out after a night of heavy drinking in a
London club called MusicMachine (hosted at the
Camden Palace, currently known as the KOKO). He was left to sleep in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in
East Dulwich, South London
[13]. The following afternoon, Kinnear found Scott lifeless, and alerted the authorities. Scott was rushed to
King's College Hospital in
Camberwell, where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.