Jimmy Barnes has been there and back. He's tasted glory as the most successful Australian rock & roll singer. He's also struggled with the pressures of being a tall poppy and he's wrestled his own demons. It's been a wild ride.
As lead singer for Cold Chisel, he fronted Australia's (arguably) most successful rock band.
Within a month of Cold Chisel finishing, Jimmy Barnes was on the road with a new band (1984) and soon released his first solo album, Bodyswerve, and it entered the charts at #1.
The next year he recorded 1987's Freight Train Heart - another #1 debut. Around this time, to celebrate the massive tour 'Australian Made', Jimmy and INXS recorded an...
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Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Barnes have been confirmed to share a stage at Bruce’s Hanging Rock...
15 March 2012 0 comments
Australian artists including Jimmy Barnes, John Butler and Missy Higgins have all signed on to a...
20 January 2011 0 comments
Jimmy Barnes and his family's charity album for the Queensland flood relief has reached number one...