Jimmy Barnes

About Jimmy Barnes

Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock singer. He was born James Dixon Swan on April 28, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 12 charting solo albums gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist. Source Wikipedia

Jimmy Barnes Hey Hey it’s Saturday

Jimmy was the last Aussie band to perform on Hey Hey it’s Saturday

A Brief History Of Jimmy Barnes

Around 1973 Jimmy Barnes briefly sang in the band Fraternity, replacing Bon Scott, before joining the Adelaide based band “Orange”. Soon after Orange changed their name to Cold Chisel Around 1977 after moving firstly to Melbourne, then to Sydney, Cold Chisel were picked up by Warner Music Group and released their self titled debut album in 1978.

Jimmy Barnes was the bands singer from 1973 through to the breakup of Cold Chisel in 1984.

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Jimmy Barnes Solo Recordings

• Bodyswerve – 1984
• For The Working Class Man – 1985
• Freight Train Heart – 1987
• Barnestorming – 1988
• Two Fires – 1990
• Soul Deep – 1991
• Heat – 1993
• Flesh And Wood 1993
• Psyclone – 1995
• Hits Anthology 1996
• Love And Fear 1999
• Soul Deeper – 2000
• Raw – 2001
• Double Jeopardy – 2002
• Live (Unplugged) At The Chapel – 2002
• Soul Deeper (Live) – 2003
• Double Happiness – 2005
• In The Heat Of The Night – 2006
• 50 -2007
• Max Sessions – 2007
• Out In The Blue – 2007

Other Resources

• http://www.jimmybarnes.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes