Article - Anthony Dennis
The Aussie prison that’s a tourism hotspot thanks to AC/DC’s Bon Scott
As I check in to my room at the Warders Hotel tucked away in the backstreets of Fremantle, an earworm in the form of AC/DC’s gritty hit Jailbreak also checks in – into my consciousness. This hotel was once the permanent home for warders of the adjacent and notorious (aren’t they all?) Fremantle Prison, where a teenage Bon Scott, AC/DC’s short-lived but iconic lead singer, was once briefly an inmate.