Deep Thought – How Coffee Should Be

“Black as Hell, strong as death, sweet as love.”

Turkish Proverb

On This Day…1980

19 February 1980

On this day in 1980 the lifeless body of Ronald Belford Scott (Bon Scott), front man of iconic Australian Hard Rock outfit AC/DC, was found by Alistair Kinnear outside 67 Overhill Road, East Dulwich, South London in Kinnear’s Renault 5 having drowned in his own vomit after a night of heavy drinking at a London club, the Music Machine. 

Ronald Belford Scott was born on 9 July 1946 in Forfar, Scotland.  His family emigrated to Australia in 1952 and initially settled in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine before moving to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1956.

In 1974 Bon Scott, as he had been dubbed whilst at school in Sunshine, became the front man of legendary Australian rockers AC/DC.  He took AC/DC from a band with regional popularity in Australia to international rock stardom appearing on the studio albums

• High Voltage 
• T.N.T.
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
• Let There Be Rock 
• Powerage; and
• Highway to Hell 

Killer Quotes – Og Mandino – The transformational power of kindness

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Og Mandino

Og Mandino was an American psychologist and writer.  He gives us this little meditationon the power of kindness to change us forever.