Mary first met Bon in 1968 at a venue in Melbourne called 10th Avenue. She remembers when Bon had just joined a band called AC/DC and they were playing at Hard Rock Café in Melbourne. “I’d left a message at Hard Rock when I heard that he was going to be the singer of that band and he rang me that day. I went to see him play that night and he came back to my flat in Carlton. I made him sleep on the lounge room floor on my big pillows but the next night he come over again and said he wasn’t sleeping on the lounge room floor any more.
I had just separated from my husband and Bon had just left Irene and so we had a relationship at that point. Our relationship ended due to a stupid misunderstanding but even though our relationship in that way ended, we basically just kept the friendship going and it made us probably closer than ever. I went overseas for my work and stayed there for nine months so we wrote to each other a bit. He told me about his life and all the stuff that AC/DC were doing. He wrote really funny, informative letters about AC/DC and other bands that they were probably supporting like Skyhooks and when I came back, we started hanging out together again and then Bon went overseas and we just kept writing letters and we kept the friendship going.”