A 1978 letter penned by AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott to a girlfriend about his heavy boozing, money troubles and shaking hands has sold at auction in Los Angeles for almost $14,000.
The Australian rocker wrote the three-page letter on Hilton hotel stationery to his girlfriend Valerie while AC/DC was in Pittsburgh in 1978 for the band's Powerage tour.
Scott died two years later.
"I know I'm pretty slack when it comes to letters & phone calls but I'm always travelling or drunk or hungover or ... or ... today I'm shaking so much I can hardly write," he wrote.
"... I had to stop making phone calls when I got too much in the red with the money situation.
"I'm already about $130 into this weeks wages but about two weeks ago I owed the band about $70 on pay day & that's crazy.
"But being crazy is about the only way to keep my sanity if you know what I mean."
Bidding for the letter at Nate D. Sanders Auctions began at $US6000 and ended on Thursday for $US9,831.25 ($13,880) .
Australian Associated Press
