Surviving a brush with the law, Bay City Roller set for a Jailhouse Rock

A prison cell is not something that Bay City Roller Les McKeown normally wants to see.

A month ago, McKeown, along with bandmate, guitarist Patrick McGlynn, was cleared of charges of supplying cocaine in England. But as fate would have it, the 50-year-old singer will go to 'prison' in Hong Kong this Friday and Saturday.

Singer McKeown and his band, the Bay City Rollers, will perform at Jailhouse Rock, a Community Chest charity party to say farewell to the city's first jail, Victoria Prison, built in 1841.

McKeown, who is in town with his wife Keiko and 21-year-old son Richard to 'chill out' before the show, could not believe it when the band was invited to perform at the prison five weeks ago.

'[I thought] someone must be playing an expensive joke. But this is for [charity], so it's not a bad thing. I could've been jailed for 14 years involuntarily,' he said.

McKeown and McGlynn were arrested last year after police found about #16,500 ($221,000) in cash in McGlynn's car and arrested two other men in possession of cocaine worth #16,000 in their car, according to The Guardian. But the jury cleared the pair of conspiracy to supply drugs.