When AC/DC Chronicled a Convict's Escape With 'Jailbreak'
Like anything involving the late Bon Scott, there are a couple of stories about where AC/DC's "Jailbreak," released in June 1976, came from. Guitarist Angus Youngonce said that the impetus for the song - a sinewy, semi-spoken account of a convict who tries to flee prison only to be (spoiler alert!) shot in the back as he galloped to freedom - was based on someone Scott met in a Perth, Australia, jail after he was arrested prior to joining AC/DC. Another account, however, contends that Scott wrote the lyrics after reading a newspaper account about Mark Brandon "Chopper" Reid, who was sentence...
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