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JIMMY BARNES

BASED: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Jimmy Barnes is the heart and the soul of Australian rock & roll. His nickname, “Barnesy”, conjures up thoughts of rock music at an ear-splitting volume, and of soul standards given a unique reading. Jimmy has been through it all, and literally lived to tell the tales. He has sold more records in Australia than any other local rock & roll artist. He has enjoyed seventeen #1 albums here – more than The Beatles – and for over 40 years he has delivered some of our most intense and iconic live performances. He is truly in a league of his own.

Recent History:

Jimmy’s new book of short stories from the long road home, called Killing Time, was released on 13 October 2020 and went straight to #1 on the Non-Fiction book chart. Written largely during the Covid19 shutdown and drawing its title from a song on the latest Cold Chisel album, the book features pieces about adventure, misadventure, love and loss – tall tales, out-takes and B-sides from one of Australia’s finest storytellers.

In 2016, Jimmy’s self-penned childhood memoir, Working Class Boy, was a #1 bestseller and won the Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA). His 2017 sequel, Working Class Man, also topped the charts and won the ABIA making him the first person to ever win “Biography Of The Year” twice. The two books have sold over 500,000 copies so far making them the most successful biographical series in local publishing history. His Stories & Songs live production based on these memoirs sold out over 100 shows and attracted unanimous critical as did the related documentary film Working Class Boy which topped the box office in late 2018. Clearly Jimmy’s life story holds a unique fascination for Australians of all ages.

In June 2019, Jimmy released his 17th album, My Criminal Record.

My Criminal Record picked up on many of the themes in his books and was his first new, original release in almost decade. The album was written by Jimmy, with significant assistance from his oldest sparring partner, Cold Chisel’s Don Walker, whose name appears on six of the thirteen tracks. Outstanding contributions also come from close friends Troy Cassar-Daley, Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel) and The Living End’s Chris Cheney, as well as Benjamin Rodgers, Harley Webster and Jade MacRae. It was Barnes, by his own estimation, still revealing himself. “There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know about me yet,” he says.

My Criminal Record secured Barnes a staggering seventeenth #1 album debuting at the top of the ARIA Album Charts – five with Cold Chisel and now twelve in his own right – Jimmy has had more number ones in Australia than any other artist in ARIA Chart history, surpassing Madonna and U2’s eleven chart toppers on the album’s release.

Older, smarter and healthier, with My Criminal Record Jimmy distilled and expanded upon his first two memoirs with 13 pieces of burning, heartland rock ‘n roll which resonated with anyone who has ever found themselves standing on the outside, looking in.

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