Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon Swan (born 28 April 1956), better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His career both as 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 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.
Early life
James Dixon Swan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in Adelaide, South Australia as a 5-year-old on 7 December 1961 with his parents Jim and Dorothy Swan and siblings John, Dorothy, Linda, Lisa and Alan. They eventually settled in Elizabeth. His father, Jim Swan, was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan also works as a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at the time. Shortly afterward, Barnes' parents divorced. His mother Dorothy soon remarried, to a clerk named Reg Barnes (died 3 September 2013). After her daughter Lisa was teased by a schoolmate about being adopted, Dorothy encouraged her children to change their surname to Barnes. All of them did except for the eldest brother John, who would go on to be much better known as Swanee, eventually recording a series of albums under that name from the 1980s. This would later cause confusion about Jimmy Barnes and Swan; many thought them to be half- or stepbrothers.
Podcasts:
Jimmy Barnes
ALBUMS
- 30:30 Hindsight released: 2014
- Rage and Ruin released: 2010
- The Rhythm and the Blues released: 2009
- Live at The Sydney Opera House released: 2008
- Out in the Blue released: 2007
- Double Happiness released: 2005
- Love and Fear released: 2003
- Raw released: 2001
- Hits: Anthology released: 1996
- Psyclone released: 1995
- Heat released: 1993
- Flesh and Wood released: 1993
- Soul Deep released: 1991
- Two Fires released: 1990
- Barnestorming released: 1988
- Freight Train Heart released: 1987
- For the Working Class Man released: 1985
- Bodyswerve released: 1984
- Soul Deeper... Songs From the Deep South released:
- Soul Deeper - Live at the Basement released:
- Live Unplugged at the Chapel released:
30:30 Hindsight
Released 2014- Lay Down Your Guns (feat. The Living End)
- Time Will Tell (feat. Baby Animals)
- Good Times (feat. Keith Urban)
- Ride the Night Away (feat. Steven Van Zandt)
- Stand Up (feat. Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates)
- I’d Die to Be With You Tonight (feat. Diesel)
- Stone Cold (feat. Tina Arena and Joe Bonamassa)
- Working Class Man (feat. Jonathan Cain & Ian Moss)
- Going Down Alone (feat. Journey)
- Love and Hate (feat. Shihad)
- No Second Prize (feat. The Family Choir)
- I’d Rather Be Blind (feat. Jon Stevens)
- When Your Love Is Gone (feat. Ruby Rodgers and the Tin Lids)
- Too Much Ain’t Enough Love (feat. Joe Bonamassa)
- I’m Still on Your Side (feat. Bernard Fanning)
- Walk On (feat. David Campbell)
- The Other Kind (feat. Troy Cassar-Daley)
The Rhythm and the Blues
Released 2009- Red Hot
- That's Right
- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- That's How It Is (When You're in Love)
- Keep a Knockin'
- Reconsider Me
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
- A Fool in Love
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
- I Was Made to Love Her
- Young Blood
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- To Be Determined
Hits: Anthology
Released 1996- Driving Wheels
- Stone Cold
- Lover Lover
- Too Much Ain't Enough Love
- I'd Die to Be With You Tonight
- Little Darling
- Ride the Night Away
- Good Times
- When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
- Change of Heart
- Working Class Man
- No Second Prize
- Lay Down Your Guns
- (Simply) The Best
- When Your Love Is Gone
- Stand Up
- I'm Still on Your Side
- The Weight
- Let's Make It Last All Night
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by Jimmy Barnes
Heat
by: Jimmy BarnesOoh..., ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Mmm-mmm-mmm
I get home, I found you sleepi-i-i-in'
I said the wor-ords, know are true-ue-ue-ue
And I'm sto-o-o-one
Stone co-old in love with you-ou-ou-ou, oh-oh-oh-oh
You don't have to turn the light o-o-o-on
Ain't had more than just a few-ew-ew-ew
And I'm sto-o-o-one
I'm stone co-old in love with you-ou, oh-oh-oh
You don't have to wonder why-y-y now-ow
Look at all the thi-ings you've been to me-ee-ee-ee
Built my whole life on the sweet foundation
You've give-e-en, baby you know what I mea-ea-ean
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I left my friends back in the poo-oo-
oolroom
They'll still be drownin' out the blue-ue-ue-ues
I'm sto-o-one
I'm stone co-o-old in love with you-ou-ou, oh-oh-oh
You don't ha-ave to wonder why-y-y-y-y
Look at all the things you've bee-ee-een
My heart lies on the sweet foundation
You've give-e-e-en, baby you know what I mea-ea-ea-ean
Oh, I see your face below the window-ow-ow-ow
I see the moonlight comin' throu-ou-ou-ough
And I'm sto-o-o-one
I'm stone co-o-old in love with you...ou-ou-ou
Yes I'm sto-o-o-o-one
I'm stone cold in love with you-ou-ou, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-
oh...