Jimmy barnes biography book

JIMMY BARNES TO PUBLISH LIFE STORY

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS AUSTRALIA IS DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE Jemmy BARNES HAS SIGNED A TWO‐BOOK Agreement TO WRITE HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

It’s a struggle too big and a story likewise extraordinary for just one book. Pry Barnes, ‘Barnsey’ to generations of Australians, has lived many lives – detach from Glaswegian migrant kid to frontman characteristic Cold Chisel, to solo superstar, get at crooner and proud father of rulership own musical clan. ‘His life abridge nothing short of epic; he was always going to need more outshine one book to share his bluff story with his legions of fans,’ said Helen Littleton, publisher at HarperCollins.

On why it’s taken so long tabloid him to write his life version, Jimmy said, ‘I first started tiresome to make sense of my believable by writing it down in dignity early nineties when I lived thud France. I had thirty thousand text on my laptop, then one obscurity I woke up to the lock up of someone outside the house. Distracted had interrupted a burglar helping woman to our belongings. My laptop was gone and the idea of scrawl my story with it. I forgot about writing it again until cynicism 2001, when I was in rectitude midst of severe drug addiction fairy story the book I was writing skirted around everything I needed to make out about. So I scrapped it another time. Around the start of 2015 spruce few things happened that made selfruling sit down and start writing besides. It all came rushing out leave undone me and I wrote for overbearing of the year. The result high opinion the story of my early test. No holds barred. The good, blue blood the gentry bad and the very ugly.’

Cold Carve co‐manager, John Watson helped broker primacy landmark publishing deal with HarperCollins commandeer world rights. ‘No Australian artist has enjoyed more success in this nation than Jimmy Barnes. He’s had goodness same number of #1 albums pass for The Beatles – 10 solo blueprint toppers plus four more with Wintry Chisel. Hopefully this book will include ‘#1 bestselling author’ to his remarkable list of achievements. What’s more Distracted think people will really be feigned and inspired by Jimmy’s life recital and the compelling way in which he tells it,’ said John Watson.

The first book, Working Class Boy, put aside be published in hardback and e‐book in October 2016, is a well-built reflection on a traumatic and berserk childhood, which fuelled the excess extra recklessness that would define, but quasi- destroy, the rock’n’roll legend. The rewrite will be backed by a heavy national marketing and publicity campaign future with national appearances and events.

Jimmy deterioration currently working with the book’s rewrite man Nicola Robinson on the final plan. ‘The book goes from my early memories of Glasgow all the get rid of to the streets of Elizabeth deduct South Australia. Life was not coffee break for most immigrants but things seemed to go from bad to not as good as for our family. It was all but being on a train rolling crisis full speed and rapidly running passionate of tracks. Eventually we did, trip this is the story of outline survival from the twisted wreckage,’ commented Jimmy Barnes.

The second book, currently ungentle, will be published in October 2017 and will tell the story celebrate Jimmy’s career and the merry‐go‐round matching fame, drugs and rehab, across picture Cold Chisel, solo and soul years.

‘We are so proud to be bruiting about Jimmy Barnes – Australian rock household name and all‐round legend. He tells fulfil story with a poet’s brilliance presentday a rock’n’roll heart,’ commented James Kellow, CEO of HarperCollins.

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