Jimmy Barnes

Barnes was born James Dixon Swan in {{birth based on age as of date|60|2016|10|28|noage=1}} in Dennistoun,{{efn|Some sources report his birth in Cowcaddens,{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13186080.legend-of-jimmy-barnes-rocks-on-with-rolling-stones-concert/|title=Legend of Jimmy Barnes rocks on with Rolling Stones concert|website=Herald Scotland|date=24 October 2014 }} but changed to Dennistoun as he said this himself in a 2016 interview.}} Glasgow, to Dorothy and James Ruthven Harvey Swan. He has four siblings: John, Dorothy, Linda, and Alan.{{Cite web |title = NAA: A1877, 7/12/61 STRATHNAVER SWAN J R H|website= National Archives of Australia |url = http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7328941 |access-date = 29 September 2015 |archive-date = 30 September 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150930125324/http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7328941 |url-status = dead }} His maternal grandmother was Jewish. He was raised Protestant and later became a Buddhist.{{cite news|url= https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/lets-get-spiritual-jimmy-finds-his-roots-20090821-etsf.html|title= Let's get spiritual: Jimmy finds his roots|last= Feneley|first= Rick|date= 22 August 2009|work= The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date= 25 December 2024}} Barnes has said that he recalls living in the slums of Glasgow "vividly".

The family, including parents and four siblings John, Dorothy, Linda, and Alan, emigrated on 7 December 1961 under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, arriving in Australia when he was five years old, on 21 January 1962. Another sister, Lisa, was born later that year. They originally lived in Adelaide, though they eventually settled in the satellite town (now regarded as a suburb) of Elizabeth. Jimmy's older brother John became a successful musician as founder and lead singer of the rock band Swanee. John encouraged and taught Barnes how to sing, as he was not initially interested.{{cite book|author=Jimmy Barnes|title=Working Class Boy|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited|date=2016|pages=61, 75}}

Barnes' father was an alcoholic, and the children endured violence, abuse, and trauma growing up. After his parents divorced, his mother remarried, to Reg Barnes. Jimmy adopted the name James Dixon Barnes{{Cite web|url=https://www.jimmybarnes.com/biography/|title = Biography |website= Jimmy Barnes}} after his stepfather, as did all of the other siblings except for the eldest, John. John Dixon became the target of sexual abuse from his parents' friends' son, and left home at 13, but Barnes has said that he was one of two heroes (the other being Reg); that he "would have been killed if it weren't for him". Barnes later said "Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad". He has expressed anger towards his mother, who deserted the family, leaving Reg to bring up the children.{{cite web | last=Divola | first=Barry | title='I broke down': Jimmy Barnes on how Working Class Boy has healed him | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=16 August 2018 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/working-class-boy-documentary-a-powerful-take-on-the-jimmy-barnes-story-20180816-h141sd.html | access-date=25 December 2024}}

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Barnes took up an apprenticeship in a foundry with the South Australian Railways in 1973, but the love he and his brother had for music led him to join a band. In 1974, his brother Swanee{{Cite web |last=Organisation |first=Grape |title=John 'Swanee' Swan |url=https://fraternitybandofficial.com.au/swanee/ |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=Fraternity |language=en-AU}} was playing drums with Fraternity,{{Cite web |last=Organisation |first=Grape |title=Jimmy Barnes |url=https://fraternitybandofficial.com.au/jimmy-barnes/ |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=Fraternity |language=en-AU}} which had just parted ways with the singer Bon Scott.{{Cite web |last=Organisation |first=Grape |title=Bon Scott |url=https://fraternitybandofficial.com.au/bon-scott/ |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=Fraternity |language=en-AU}} Barnes took over the role but his tenure with the band was brief and, in December 1975, he joined a harder-edged band called Orange, with the organist and songwriter Don Walker, guitarist Ian Moss, drummer Steve Prestwich, and bass guitarist Les Kaczmarek.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Ian McFarlane|url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=213 |title=Encyclopedia entry for 'Cold Chisel'|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop|date=1999|via=Whammo|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040419101605/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=213 |archivedate=19 April 2004|accessdate=8 May 2018}} He later said that Walker had had a profound influence on him, because "he was someone who really cared about what he was doing, and who seemed to have a plan".

In 1974, Orange had changed its name to Cold Chisel and began to develop a strong presence on the local music scene.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} Barnes moved to Armidale, New South Wales with the band while Walker completed his masters there, In May 1976 Cold Chisel relocated to Melbourne, but, "frustrated by their lack of progress", they moved on to Sydney in early 1977.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1981/CB-1981-07-18.pdf|title=New Faces to Watch |magazine=Cash Box|via=World Radio History|page=8|date=18 July 1981|access-date=1 December 2021}} In late 1977 WEA (later Warner Music) signed the band.{{cite web | title=Official Bio | website=Cold Chisel | date=29 May 2024 | url=https://www.coldchisel.com/band/biography/ | access-date=27 December 2024}}

Between 1978 and 1984, Cold Chisel released five studio albums and won numerous TV Week / Countdown Awards.{{Cite web | url = http://www.countdownmemories.com/magazines/pdfs/1987_03.pdf | title = Countdown to the Awards | work = Countdown Magazine |date=March 1987 | publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) | format = Portable document format (PDF) | access-date = 16 December 2010 }} Barnes would frequently leave and return to the band during this period, and they did not earn enough money to live on, despite pulling huge crowds. After acrimonious arguments had developed among band members, Cold Chisel broke up in December 1983, its final performances at the Sydney Entertainment Centre running from 12 to 15 December 1983.{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116393104 | title = Timespan: Chisel farewell delayed so Barnes can give his best | last = Perry | first = Lisa | newspaper = The Canberra Times | volume = 58 | issue = 17,566 | date = 2 November 1983 | page = 24 | via = National Library of Australia }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20040419101605/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=213 Encyclopedia entry for 'Cold Chisel'], Whammo.com.au

Cold Chisel reunited in 1997 and released Last Wave of Summer in 1998. Since then Barnes has continued to perform on and off with the band while also pursuing a solo career. In 2013 they established their own record label under which to publish their own music, and signed a deal for distribution and promotion with the Universal Music Group.{{cite web | title=Cold Chisel form own label and strike new distribution deal | website=Cold Chisel | date=20 August 2013 | url=https://www.coldchisel.com/cold-chisel-form-own-label-and-strike-new-distribution-deal/ | access-date=27 December 2024}} In late 2024 the band did a 50th anniversary national tour, finishing with a gig at the VAILO Adelaide 500 post-race concert in Adelaide on 17 November 2024.{{cite web | title=COLD CHISEL announce 50th Anniversary Tour | website=Cold Chisel | date=28 May 2024 | url=https://www.coldchisel.com/cold-chisel-announce-50th-anniversary-tour-the-big-five-0/ | access-date=26 December 2024}}

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Barnes launched his solo career less than a month after Cold Chisel's Last Stand tour came to an end in December 1983. He assembled a band that included Arnott, the former Fraternity bass guitar player Bruce Howe{{Cite web |title=Bruce Howe |url=https://fraternitybandofficial.com.au/bruce-howe/ |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=Fraternity |language=en-AU}} and guitarists Mal Eastick (ex-Stars) and Chris Stockley (ex-The Dingoes) and began touring and writing for a solo album. Signing to Mushroom Records, Barnes released his first single, "No Second Prize", in August 1984, which peaked at number 12 on the Australian charts.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} His first solo album, Bodyswerve, was produced by Mark Opitz and released in 1984. It debuted at Number One on the Australian charts.

Barnes's second album, For the Working Class Man, was released in December 1985 and included the tracks "I'd Die to Be with You Tonight" and "Working Class Man".{{cite web | title=Jimmy Barnes – For The Working Class Man 25 – CD (Album, Reissue, Remastered), 2010 [r6320026] | website=Discogs | date=2 July 2010 | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6320026-Jimmy-Barnes-For-The-Working-Class-Man-25 | access-date=27 December 2024}} For the Working Class Man debuted on the Australian national chart at No. 1 in December 1985 and it remained at No. 1 for seven weeks.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} Titled simply Jimmy Barnes in the US,{{cite web | title=Jimmy Barnes | website=AllMusic | date=1 January 1970 | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/jimmy-barnes-mw0000740918#releases | access-date=27 December 2024}} the album was issued in February 1986 to tie in with the release of the Ron Howard film Gung Ho (titled Working Class Man in Australia), which used "Working Class Man".{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

The Jimmy Barnes band that toured Australia in support of the album included Howe and Arnott, with the keyboard player Peter Kekell, the former Rose Tattoo guitarist Robin Riley and the American guitarist Dave Amato. With the release of the album in America, Barnes and a band of Canadian musicians hand-picked by his North American management team toured with ZZ Top.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

In 1986, Barnes recorded two songs with INXS, a cover version of the Easybeats' "Good Times" and "Laying Down The Law", which he co-wrote with INXS members Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence. Both songs appeared on soundtrack of the Joel Schumacher film The Lost Boys (1987).{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} "Good Times" was also used as the theme song for the Australian Made series of concerts that toured the country in the summer of 1986–87. Barnes and INXS headlined, and the rest of the line-up was Mental as Anything, Divinyls, Models, The Saints, I'm Talking, and The Triffids.{{cite web | title=Jimmy Barnes and INXS at Australian Made: Good Times | website=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/98336-jimmy-barnes-and-inxs-australian-made-good-times | access-date=27 December 2024}} A concert film of this event was made by Richard Lowenstein and released later that year.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199342/ |title=Australian Made: The Movie (1987)|website= IMDb}}

In October 1987, Barnes released "Too Much Ain't Enough Love", which became his first solo number-one single. His third album, Freight Train Heart, was released in December 1987 and peaked at number one. Freight Train Heart had moderate success outside Australia.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In November 1988, Barnes released his first solo live album, Barnestorming, which became his fourth solo number one album. A version of the Percy Sledge standard "When a Man Loves a Woman" released from the album peaked at number 3.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

In 1990, Barnes recorded his fourth studio album, which featured songwriting contributions from the likes of Desmond Child, Diane Warren and Holly Knight. Two Fires, released in August 1990. debuted at number one on the Australian chart. The album featured the top-twenty singles "Lay Down Your Guns", "Let's Make it Last All Night" and "When Your Love is Gone".

In November 1991, Barnes released his fifth studio album, Soul Deep, an album of soul covers. Barnes had long fostered a love for soul and for black music, naming his children after influential black artists and including songs by Sam Cooke and Percy Sledge on previous albums.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Soul Deep became Barnes's sixth Australian number-one album and included the track "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" with John Farnham.

In March 1993, Barnes released Heat, which was influenced by the then-current grunge trend and by the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Heat peaked at number two on the ARIA charts, becoming Barnes's first solo album not to peak at number one. The album contained the song "Stone Cold", written by former Cold Chisel bandmate Don Walker. It marked the first time Jimmy Barnes had worked with any member of his old band for almost a decade. The pair teamed up for an acoustic version of the track for an unplugged album Flesh and Wood, which was released in December 1993 and peaked at number two. The album included a version, recorded with The Badloves, of The Band's "The Weight", which became a top-ten hit. Also in 1993, Barnes teamed up with Tina Turner for a duet version of "The Best" in the form of a TV promotion for rugby league's Winfield Cup. The single also reached the top ten in 1993.

In the mid-1990s, Barnes's career suffered a slump.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} He faced financial ruin as his music-publishing company Dirty Sheet Music and his wife's children's fashion label both went broke.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} The family sold their property in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, and settled for some time in Aix-en-Provence, France, attracting some adverse publicity when Barnes assaulted a television crew from Channel 7.Creswell, et al. While there, Barnes did considerable live work throughout Britain and toured with the Rolling Stones.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In June 1995, Barnes released his eighth studio album, Psyclone, which peaked at number 2 in Australia and featured the top-twenty single "Change of Heart".

In September 1996, Barnes released "Lover Lover", which peaked at number 6 on the singles chart. This was followed in October 1996 with Barnes's first greatest-hits compilation, Barnes Hits Anthology, which became Barnes's seventh solo number-one album.

In 1998, Cold Chisel reformed and Barnes returned to Australia with his family after three years in France.{{Cite web |url= http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2192425.htm |title= Jimmy Barnes|website= Talking Heads with Peter Thompson|publisher= ABC |access-date= 11 January 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160712192318/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2192425.htm |archive-date=12 July 2016 |url-status=dead | quote = 'After three years in France, we decided we were going to move back to Australia. Main reason we initially thought about coming back was there was talk of a Cold Chisel reunion. In the meantime, I released a "Greatest Hits" album, which was very successful. Cold Chisel toured, the "Last Wave of Summer" tour in 1998, we had a successful album, and the whole thing started again.'}}

In March 1999 Barnes performed the 1978 Sylvester hit "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" live onstage at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras annual party.

Later that year Barnes released the heavy-rock single "Love and Hate", followed by its parent album Love and Fear. An autobiographical record combining hard rock with electronic music, Love and Fear was Barnes's first album to miss the Australian top ten, peaking at number 22.

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In October 2000, Barnes performed at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oee-N__vkuQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Oee-N__vkuQ |archive-date=22 December 2021 |title=Sydney Olympics 2000 Jimmy Barnes|website=YouTube|date=26 December 2008 |access-date=27 March 2012}}{{cbignore}} In November 2000, Barnes released a second album of soul tunes, titled Soul Deeper... Songs From the Deep South. The album peaked at number 3 on the ARIA charts. A number of live albums followed with little commercial success.

In 2004, Barnes recorded an album with Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse, Uriah Heep drummer Lee Kerslake, bass player Bob Daisley and keyboard player Don Airey under the name Living Loud. The self-titled album featured a number of songs originally written and recorded with Ozzy Osbourne by Kerslake, Daisley, and Airey.

In July 2005, Barnes released his eleventh studio album, Double Happiness, which debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts. Double Happiness was an album of duets, including several with his children, daughters Mahalia and Elly-May, sons Jackie Barnes and David Campbell. After its initial success, it was re-released as a double CD/DVD package featuring many of his duets from previous albums, including those with INXS, John Farnham, Joe Cocker, and Tina Turner.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

In September 2007 he started recording his twelfth studio album, Out in the Blue. Produced by Nash Chambers at Barnes' own studio Freight Train Studios, it was released on 24 November 2007.{{cite web | title=Jimmy Barnes Out In the Blue | website=Female.com.au | date=24 November 2007 | url=https://www.female.com.au/jimmy-barnes-out-in-the-blue.htm | access-date=24 December 2024}} The songs were written while he recovered from his heart surgery, and was described as a change in direction, "very much a rootsy, rock album with rockabilly shuffles, powerful ballads and flat chat rock & roll". "When Two Hearts Collide" is a duet with Kasey Chambers, and other musicians featured on the album include Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil), Mark Punch, and Chris Haigh, as well as his four children Mahalia, EJ, Jackie, and Elly-May.

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In March 2008, Barnes appeared as a special guest during soul singer Guy Sebastian's tour.

November 2008 saw the release of a duet with son David Campbell, a cover of The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" that featured on Campbell's album Good Lovin'.

In September 2009, Barnes released his thirteenth studio album The Rhythm and the Blues which became Barnes's ninth Australian number one album; thus giving him more No. 1 albums than any other Australian artist.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26043614-5012327,00.html|title=Jimmy Barnes' The Rhythm And The Blues album debts at No. 1 – his ninth number-one |publisher=News.com.au|access-date=4 October 2009 | first=Kathy | last=McCabe | date=8 September 2009}}

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In August 2010, Barnes released his 14th solo studio album, Rage and Ruin. Barnes stated that the ideas for most of the lyrics and song themes came from a journal he kept during a period in his life (late 1990s to early 2000s) when he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Rage and Ruin debuted at number 3 on the ARIA Charts on 5 September 2010.

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Barnes headlined at Celebrate in the Park,{{when|date=December 2024}} playing a 90-minute set which included his solo hits and some Cold Chisel greats. He was joined by daughter Mahalia in a soulful rendition of "When the War Is Over", which he dedicated to the memory of Steve Prestwich.

In August 2014, Barnes released 30:30 Hindsight, an anniversary album celebrating 30 years since his chart-topping debut solo album, Bodyswerve. The album debuted at No. 1 in Australia, becoming Barnes's 10th solo No. 1 album.{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/news/48007/chartifacts---tuesday-9th-september-2014 |title=Chartifacts – Tuesday 9th September 2014 |publisher=ARIA |date=9 September 2014 |access-date=24 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027021023/http://www.ariacharts.com.au/news/48007/chartifacts---tuesday-9th-september-2014 |archive-date=27 October 2014 }}

In 2015, Barnes asked the Reclaim Australia Political Party to stop playing his music at their rallies.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-22/jimmy-barnes-asks-reclaim-australia-rallies-stop-using-songs/6638478|title=Jimmy Barnes asks anti-Islam rally groups to stop using his songs|newspaper=ABC News |date=21 July 2015}} In July 2015, it was announced that Barnes would release Best of the Soul Years compilation. The album would be compiled of soul and R&B classics, from his three soul albums; "Soul Deep" (1991), "Soul Deeper" (2000) and "The Rhythm and the Blues" (2009).{{cite web|url=http://liberation.com.au/jimmy-barnes-releasing-best-of-the-soul-years-1990-2015-album-on-aug-21st/|title=Jimmy Barnes releasing 'Best Of The Soul Years' (1990–2015) album on Aug 14th|website=Liberation.com.au|date=8 July 2015|access-date=14 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216075858/http://liberation.com.au/jimmy-barnes-releasing-best-of-the-soul-years-1990-2015-album-on-aug-21st/|archive-date=16 February 2017}} A fourth album of soul covers was released in June 2016 called, Soul Searchin', which became Barnes's 11th number one album in Australia and tied Barnes the equal second-most (with Madonna and U2) of all time behind The Beatles at 14.{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/aria-albums-jimmy-barnes-soul-searchin-is-his-11th-no-1-20160611|title=ARIA Albums: Jimmy Barnes 'Soul Searchin' Is His 11th No 1|website=Noise 11|author=Gavin Ryan|date=11 June 2016|access-date=11 June 2016}}

In 2017, he featured in the song "Big Enough" by Kirin J. Callinan, alongside Alex Cameron and Molly Lewis. The song was featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in a comedic skit.{{cite news|last1=Gaca|first1=Anna|title=Video: Kirin J Callinan – "Big Enough" ft. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis, & Jimmy Barnes|url=https://www.spin.com/2017/08/kirin-j-callinan-big-enough-video-watch/|access-date=16 October 2017|work=Spin|date=17 August 2017}}{{cite news|last1=John|first1=Brandon|url=http://tonedeaf.com.au/jimmy-barnes-stars-genuinely-epic-music-video-kirin-j-callinan/|title=Jimmy Barnes stars in a genuinely epic music video for Kirin J Callinan|access-date=16 October 2017|work=Tone Deaf|date=18 August 2017}} In addition to this, his cameo in the song's music video became a popular internet meme in late 2017.{{cite web|last1=Matthews|first1=Alice|date=7 November 2017|url=http://doublej.net.au/news/features/barnesy-on-becoming-a-meme-i-just-screamed-on-it-like-a-banshee-for-about-five-minutes|title=Jimmy Barnes on becoming a meme: 'I just screamed like a banshee'|website=Double J|access-date=14 January 2018}} In March of the same year, Barnes released a children's album called Och Aye the G'nu.{{cite web|title=The Wiggles 25th Anniversary: Feature Interview – The Bugg Report|url=https://buggreport.com.au/blog/the-wiggles-25th-anniversary-feature-interview/|website=The Bugg Report|date=30 May 2016|access-date=1 December 2017|archive-date=2 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202054337/https://buggreport.com.au/blog/the-wiggles-25th-anniversary-feature-interview/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Wake Up, Jimmy! Barnsey To Team Up With The Wiggles For New Kids' Album|url=http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2017/03/15/wake-up,-jimmy!-barnsey-to-team-up-with-the-wiggles-for-new-kids-album/|website=theMusic|access-date=13 March 2018}} It won the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2017,{{cite web|last1=Wilson|first1=Zanda|title=Yep, Jimmy Barnes Just Won An ARIA For 'Best Children's Album'|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/yep-jimmy-barnes-just-won-aria-best-childrens-album/|website=Music Feeds|access-date=28 November 2017|date=28 November 2017}} although the brand that appeared on the album, as well as the poetry books that were released on the first of April{{cite web|title=Och Aye The G'Nu Storybook|url=https://shop.abc.net.au/och-aye-the-gnu-storybook-pbk?region=undefined|website=ABC Shop|access-date=28 November 2017}}{{cite web|title=Och Aye The G'Nu|url=https://shop.abc.net.au/och-aye-the-gnu-hbk|website=ABC Shop|access-date=28 November 2017}} are related to The Wiggles.

In January 2019, Barnes announced his forthcoming eighteenth solo studio album, My Criminal Record. It was released on 17 May 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/jimmy-barnes-to-release-17th-solo-studio-album-my-criminal-record-20190111|title=Jimmy Barnes to release 17th solo studio album My Criminal Record |website=Noise11|date=11 January 2019|access-date=11 January 2019}} It was Barnes's 12th solo number-one album, and 16th when including releases with Cold Chisel on the Australian albums chart, making him the artist with the most chart-topping albums in Australian chart history, having previously tied at 11 number ones with Madonna and U2.{{cite web|url=https://www.ariacharts.com.au/news/2019/my-criminal-record-gives-jimmy-barnes-record-break|title=My Criminal Record gives Jimmy Barnes record-breaking 12th #1 album|publisher=ARIA|date=8 June 2019|access-date=8 June 2019}} At the APRA Music Awards of 2020, "Shutting Down Our Town" was nominated for Most Performed Rock Work of the Year.{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/tones-and-i-leads-nominations-for-2020-virtual-apra-awards-20200407|title= Tones and I Leads Nominations for 2020 Virtual APRA Awards|website=Noise11|date=7 April 2020|access-date=11 April 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2020-awards/apra-music-awards/|title=2020 Awards|website=APRA|date=7 April 2020|access-date=11 April 2020|archive-date=9 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409145024/https://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2020-awards/apra-music-awards/|url-status=dead}}

In 2021, Barnes stated that he formed a rockabilly band with Slim Jim Phantom and Chris Cheney.{{Cite web|date=21 January 2021|title=Barnesy starts a new band|url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/music/australian-rock-singer-jimmy-barnes-has-formed-a-new-band-ng-b881774780z|access-date=5 February 2021|website=PerthNow|language=en}}

In April 2022, Barnes announced the forthcoming release of Soul Deep 30, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Soul Deep, alongside a national tour.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/jimmy-barnes-announces-soul-deep-30-and-national-australian-tour-dates-3208848|title= Jimmy Barnes announces 'Soul Deep 30' and national Australian tour dates|website=NME|date=22 April 2022|access-date=25 April 2022}} In November 2022, Barnes released his first Christmas album, Blue Christmas.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/jimmy-barnes-announces-festive-album-blue-christmas-shares-first-single-3334223 |title=Jimmy Barnes announces festive album 'Blue Christmas', shares first single|website=NME |date=24 October 2022|access-date=24 October 2022 |author=Brereton, Greta}}{{cite web | last=Cashmere | first=Paul | title=Jimmy Barnes Expands The Tin Lids With His Grand Lids | website=Noise11.com | date=1 November 2023 | url=https://www.noise11.com/news/jimmy-barnes-expands-the-tin-lids-with-his-grand-lids-20231101 | access-date=26 December 2024}} It became his fifteenth number-one solo album.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/jimmy-barnes-extends-australian-chart-record-blue-christmas-1235180020/ | title=Jimmy Barnes Extends Australian Chart Record with Blue Christmas | first=Lars | last=Brandle | magazine=Billboard | date=2 December 2022 | access-date=2 December 2022 }}

In March 2023, Barnes announced the formation of supergroup The Barnestormers, featuring Barnes, Chris Cheney, Slim Jim Phantom, Jools Holland and Kevin Shirley. A self-titled album was released on 26 May 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.noise11.com/news/the-barnestormers-reveal-debut-album-details-20230310|title=The Barnestormers Reveal Debut Album Details|website=Noise11|date=10 March 2023|access-date=10 March 2023}}

Barnes' Freight Train Studios were originally located at Bowral, later moving to Botany in Sydney.{{cite web | title=Freight Train Studios | website=Discogs | url=https://www.discogs.com/label/392887-Freight-Train-Studios?srsltid=AfmBOoqGOzBHCIfBRs9fiq0gDzdxcrc_MOzX1TZR8EqP88J4-s-hfekn&page=1 | access-date=24 December 2024}}

Among others, the following albums were recorded in the studio:

• Hey Rudolph! (The Tin Lids, 2006); a collection of Christmas carols{{Citation | author1 = Tin Lids | author2 = Froggatt, David | title = Hey Rudolph | date = 1991 | publisher = Mushroom Records | url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30818154/version/173760231 | access-date = 24 Dec 2024 }}
• Out in the Blue (2007)
• Rage and Ruin (also at Conway Recording Studio A, Los Angeles, and Woodcliff Studios, Sherman Oaks (LA){{cite web | title=Release Info | website=AllMusic | date=7 September 2010 | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/rage-and-ruin-mr0003130863 | access-date=24 December 2024}}

In 1992 Barnes worked with his friend Mandawuy Yunupingu, frontman of Yothu Yindi, on a project called "Sister Schools", the aim of which was to ensure that "schools with few or no Aboriginal children will forge educational and social links with schools with large numbers of Aboriginal children, in an attempt to foster tolerance and understanding". Before the launch of the project, "the Yunupingu kids" (Mandawuy's children) recorded a song{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137175995 |title=Good times building bridges |newspaper=The Canberra Times|first= Gordon |last=Feeney |volume=66 |issue=20,955 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=27 August 1992 |accessdate=28 December 2024 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}} written by Yunupingu called "School"{{cite web | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association | title = 'School Song' at APRA search engine | url = https://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch#axd?q=School%20Songl }} Note: User may have to click "Search again" and provide details at "Enter a title:" e.g. School Song; or at "Performer:" Tin Lids with Barnes' children in their band The Tin Lids. As part of the project, endorsed by the government, schools with few or no Aboriginal children would forge educational and social links with schools with many Aboriginal children, by exchanging letters, photographs, and other media. Around 100 schools expressed interest in the project, which was launched in August 1992 by connecting the school in Yirrkala with Gib Gate Primary School near Mittagong in New South Wales. In 1994, a primary school in Deloraine, Tasmania, hosted a group of children from Ali Curung, NT, for six days as part of the scheme.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213044419 |title=UNIQUE EXCHANGE |newspaper=Western Tiers |volume=15 |issue=4 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=21 April 1994 |accessdate=28 December 2024 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In late 2006, Barnes became patron of the Choir of Hard Knocks, a choral group formed by Jonathon Welch and consisting of homeless and disadvantaged people in Melbourne. The formation of the choir was documented by the ABC as a five-part series aired in May 2007.{{cite web | last=Farnsworth | first=Sarah | title=Final bow for Choir of Hard Knocks founding director Jonathon Welch | website=ABC News | date=1 September 2019 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-02/final-bow-for-choir-of-hard-knocks-director-jonathon-welch/11155832 | access-date=26 December 2024}}{{cite web | title=Our History | website=Choir of Hard Knocks | url=https://choirofhardknocks.org.au/our-history | access-date=26 December 2024}} Barnes has regularly performed "Flame Trees" with the choir at their concerts.{{cite web | title=Flame Trees | website=ABC News | date=2 September 2019 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-02/flame-trees/11454118 | access-date=26 December 2024}}{{YouTube|D_piPQp8VK4| Jimmy Barnes sings Flame Trees with Choir of Hard Knocks (2006) }} Australian Story, 5 Dec 2019.

On 14 March 2011 he planted a flame tree, made famous in Cold Chisel's 1984 song "Flame Trees", at the National Arboretum Canberra.{{cite web|url=http://www.chiefminister.act.gov.au/media.php?v=10539|title=Jimmy Barnes plants Flame tree in Arboretum|date=14 March 2011}}

Barnes also guest-starred in episode 2 of season 2 of the television comedy series These New South Whales in 2018.{{cite web | last=Cashmere | first=Paul | title=Jimmy Barnes Makes A Cameo In These New South Whales | website=Noise11.com | date=22 May 2018 | url=https://www.noise11.com/news/jimmy-barnes-makes-a-cameo-in-these-new-south-whales-20180523 | access-date=26 December 2024}}{{YouTube|HpG2mZcMEtg|These New South Whales – S02 E02: Working Class Band}}. 4 November 2019

In November 1979, Barnes met Jane Mahoney, the stepdaughter of an Australian diplomat{{cite book|author=Creswell, Toby|title=Jimmy Barnes: Too Much Ain't Enough|pages=87–99|date=1993|publisher=Random House Australia |isbn=0-09-182818-X}} whose mother was Thai. Mahoney had spent the first five years of her life living with extended family in a family compound in Bangkok. Her mother, Phorn, was one of 26 children, and her grandmother was one of seven wives. Her grandfather was a rich businessman who had left two Chinese wives behind when he moved from China to Thailand just before the Communist Revolution of China. Phorn was sent to boarding school in England. She met and married Thai man Suvit Dejakasaya, and the couple had three children before divorcing four years later. Soon afterwards, Phorn met and married Australian diplomat John Mahoney, and moved to Canberra with him. The family moved around following her father's postings, living in Italy, Russia, New Guinea, Kiribati, Malta, and Malaysia. Jane studied pure mathematics, comparative religion, art history, psychology, and five languages at The University of Canberra, and met Barnes in November 1979. Eventually, she dropped out of university and moved to Sydney to be with him, and they married in May 1981.{{cite web | title="There's nothing more important to me than family": Jane Barnes getting through the highs and lows with her loved ones|first= Jane| last=Barnes |interviewer-first=Samantha|interviewer-last= Trenoweth| website=Now To Love | date=17 June 2021 | url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celebrity-news/jimmy-barnes-wife-jane-68048/ | access-date=26 December 2024}}{{cite web | last=Koch | first=Phillip | title=Inside Jimmy Barnes and wife Jane's romantic love story | website=New Idea | date=23 May 2024 | url=https://www.newidea.com.au/celebrity/australian-celebrities/jimmy-barnes-wife-jane-mahoney/ | access-date=25 December 2024}}

Barnes has eight children: four with his wife Jane (Mahalia, Eliza-Jane ("EJ"), Jackie and Elly-May{{snd}}all musically known as The Tin Lids). Before that, his eldest son, David Campbell, was born of a teenage relationship with Kim Campbell.{{Cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Danielle |title=Why Jimmy Barnes abandoned son David Campbell as a baby |date=2019-09-23 |url=https://www.oversixty.com.au/entertainment/music/why-jimmy-barnes-abandoned-son-david-campbell-as-a-baby |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=Over Sixty}} He has said about his relationship with David's mother Kim that they were just two scared kids who were being beaten and abused at home, and not ready to bring up a child. David's grandmother raised him, although Barnes was at first told that he had been adopted. He also has three daughters (Amanda, Megan, and Katy Lee) from three other relationships.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.who.com.au/jimmy-barnes-children |title=Seven kids, four mothers: Jimmy Barnes and his children |first=Rhys |last=McKay |date=2023-04-24 |magazine=Who |access-date=2024-01-19 }}{{Cite web |last=McCabe |first=Kathy |date=23 December 2024 |title='Loved getting to know her': Jimmy's relationship with long lost daughter |url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/loved-getting-to-know-her-jimmys-relationship-with-long-lost-daughter/news-story/6bce3bc8f74a4edb1f0ef922b72b0634 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=News.com.au}} In 2010, he met Amanda (then 37) and Megan (then 36) for the first time, and accepted them into his family as soon as paternity had been confirmed. He met Katy Lee Carroll around 2019, publishing a post about her on social media for the first time in December 2024. She has got to know the rest of the family since, and posted about it herself. While requesting privacy, she also acknowledged that she had "been embraced by the Barnes family with love, warmth and incredible understanding".{{cite web | last=Quinn | first=Karl | title=Jimmy Barnes daughter: Barnes unveils another grown-up child, one who is a 'wonderful woman' | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=24 December 2024 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/a-wonderful-woman-jimmy-barnes-unveils-another-grown-up-child-20241224-p5l0hw.html | access-date=27 December 2024}}

Barnes is brother-in-law to fellow musician and long-time collaborator Diesel, who married Jane Barnes's sister Jep in 1989.{{Cite news|last=Murfett|first=Andrew|date=15 July 2009|title=One from the clan with a lot on his plate|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/one-from-the-clan-with-a-lot-on-his-plate-20090715-ge7zlu.html|access-date=15 October 2021|newspaper=The Age}}

After Barnes played in Darwin in 1991 and met Mandawuy Yunupingu, frontman of Yothu Yindi, Barnes was "adopted" as a white brother into the Yunupingu clan, based on the Gove Peninsula in east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, with social distancing and lockdowns enforced to prevent the spread of the disease, Jane Barnes learned how to play the guitar and she and Jimmy, sometimes along with various family members, started the Jane Barnes Band, performing in their lounge room and sharing videos on social media. They proved so popular that the band, later joined by other musicians, went on tour in 2023,{{cite web | title=The Jane Barnes Band started up a couple years ago in lockdown... | website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/jimmybarnesofficial/videos/926448091886941/ | access-date=25 December 2024}} and also appeared on Sunrise on Channel 7.{{cite web | title=Jane Barnes band performs 'Let It Be Me' live on Sunrise | website=7NEWS | date=4 May 2023 | url=https://7news.com.au/video/entertainment/jane-barnes-band-performs-let-it-be-me-live-on-sunrise-bc-6326706086112 | access-date=25 December 2024}} Jane sang and as well as playing guitar, played bagpipes and tin flute,

By around the 2000s, both Jane and Jimmy Barnes were not coping, and addicted to alcohol and drugs. Their children, then in their late teens and early twenties, staged an intervention which led their parents to going into rehab and kicking their habits.

Barnes underwent heart surgery in February 2007.{{cite news |title=Barnes under the knife |date=2007-02-23 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/barnes-under-the-knife-20070223-gdpj2f.html |access-date=2024-01-20 }} On 7 July 2007 Barnes was a presenter at the Australian leg of Live Earth.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} In August he became a regular presenter on The Know, a pop culture program on the pay-TV channel MAX and has also been a presenter of the Planet Rock program on the Austereo network. {{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

On 28 November 2023, Barnes announced via Instagram that he was being treated in hospital for a bacterial infection. He remained in hospital for two weeks; on 12 December he announced, also via Instagram, that he was undergoing open heart surgery due to the infection having spread to an already-weakened valve.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/13/jimmy-barnes-open-heart-surgery-bacterial-infection |title=Jimmy Barnes undergoes open heart surgery after bacterial infection spreads |newspaper=The Guardian |date=13 December 2023 |last=Sun |first=Michael |access-date=2024-01-20 }}

In 2016, Barnes published his autobiography, Working Class Boy, which explored his traumatic childhood experiences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460752135/working-class-boy|title=Working Class Boy|website=HarperCollins Australia}}{{cite interview|first= Jimmy |last= Barnes| title=Jimmy Barnes' Hard-Knock Life|interviewer-first=Andrew P. |interviewer-last=Street | website=Rolling Stone Australia | date=28 October 2016 | url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jimmy-barnes-hard-knock-life-1444/ | access-date=26 December 2024}}

In November 2017, Barnes published a second memoir; a sequel to Working Class Boy titled Working Class Man. On 3 May 2018, Barnes won the biography of the year award at the Australian Book Industry Awards for the second year in a row.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/04/jimmy-barnes-wins-book-award-for-second-year-i-never-dreamed-of-being-an-author|title=Jimmy Barnes wins book award for second year: 'I never dreamed of being an author'|last1=Zhou|first1=Naaman|last2=Harmon|first2=Steph|date=3 May 2018|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=4 May 2018}}

His autobiography Working Class Boy was adapted into a film by Universal Pictures. Directed by Mark Joffe, the film premiered in Australian cinemas on 23 August 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/movies/jimmy-barnes-childhood-ghosts-in-working-class-boy-trailer/ar-AAzgi3k|title=Jimmy Barnes childhood ghosts in Working Class Boy trailer|website=Msn.com|language=en-AU|access-date=14 August 2018}} A soundtrack was released on 17 August 2018.

Barnes is a practising Buddhist,{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} and describes himself as a socialist. He is a supporter of the Australian Labor Party,{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-06/jimmy-barnes-rules-out-running-for-politics/11176560 |title=Jimmy Barnes rules out politics, despite calls for action on climate change and greater equality |first=Daniel |last=Keane |date=6 June 2019 |access-date=2024-01-20 |work=Australian Broadcasting Corporation }} as well as the Port Adelaide Football Club.{{Cite web |title=Jimmy Barnes on The Reaction To Him Saying He'd Play the Grand Final for free if Port make it |date=8 October 2020 |author=Rudi Edsall |website=Triple M |url=https://www.triplem.com.au/story/jimmy-barnes-on-the-reaction-to-him-saying-he-d-play-the-grand-final-for-free-if-port-make-it-167679 |access-date=2024-01-20 }}

{{Further|Cold Chisel|Jimmy Barnes discography}}

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• Bodyswerve (1984)
• For the Working Class Man (1985)
• Freight Train Heart (1987)
• Two Fires (1990)
• Soul Deep (1991)
• Heat (1993)
• Flesh and Wood (1993)
• Psyclone (1995)
• Love and Fear (1999)
• Soul Deeper... Songs From the Deep South (2000)
• Double Happiness (2005)
• Out in the Blue (2007)
• The Rhythm and the Blues (2009)
• Rage and Ruin (2010)
• 30:30 Hindsight (2014)
• Soul Searchin' (2016)
• Och Aye the G'nu (2017)
• Working Class Boy (2018)
• My Criminal Record (2019)
• Flesh and Blood (2021)
• Blue Christmas (2022)
• ''Defiant (2025)

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{{as of|November 2024}} Barnes has written six books. He is the only author to win back-to-back Australian Book Industry Awards for a non-fiction title. His first two books sold over 500,000 copies.{{cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/jimmy-barnes-2016721422643#:~:text=Jimmy%27s%20childhood%20memoir%2C%20Working%20Class,of%20the%20Year%20in%202018.|title= Jimmy Barnes|website=Harper Collins|date=2024|access-date=15 December 2024}}

Barnes' career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.{{Cite web |url=http://ozziesabroad.com/most-successful-australian-bands |title=Most Successful Australian Bands|date=26 September 2017|website=Ozzies Abroad |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010181249/http://ozziesabroad.com/most-successful-australian-bands |archive-date=10 October 2018 |url-status=usurped }}

In 2017 Barnes was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, singer and songwriter, and through support for not-for-profit organisations, particularly to children with a disability.{{cite web |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |title=Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia |work=Australia Day 2017 Honours List |publisher=Governor-General of Australia |date=26 January 2017 |access-date=27 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321173045/http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |archive-date=21 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

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| 2022

| Flesh and Blood

| Best Independent Rock Album or EP

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/nominees-announced-for-air-independent-music-awards-2022/|title=Nominees Announced For AIR Independent Music Awards 2022|website=musicfeeds|date=1 June 2022|access-date=1 June 2022}}{{Cite news|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/genesis-owusu-wins-big-at-the-2022-air-awards/|title=Genesis Owusu Wins Big At The 2022 AIR Awards|website=MusicFeeds|date=5 August 2022|access-date=6 August 2022|author=Tyler Jenke}}

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The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.

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| 2016{{cite web | url = http://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2016-awards/apra-music-awards-winners/ted-albert-award-for-outstanding-services-to-australian-music/ | title = Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | year = 2016 | access-date = 19 July 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161005145351/http://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2016-awards/apra-music-awards-winners/ted-albert-award-for-outstanding-services-to-australian-music/ | archive-date = 5 October 2016 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}

| (Jimmy Barnes as part of) Cold Chisel

| Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music

| {{yes2|Awarded}}

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| 2020

| "Shutting Down Our Town" (featuring Troy Cassar-Daley)

| rowspan="3" | Most Performed Rock Work

| {{won}}

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| 2022{{cite web|url=https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/nominees-revealed-for-2022-apra-music-awards/|title=Nominees Revealed for 2022 APRA Music Awards|website=The Industry Observer|date=7 April 2022|access-date=9 April 2022}}

| "Flesh and Blood"

| {{nom}}

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| 2023{{cite web|url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/nominees-revealed-for-the-2023-apra-music-awards|title=Nominees revealed for the 2023 APRA Music Awards|website=APRA Awards|date=30 March 2023|access-date=31 March 2023}}

| "Around in Circles"

| {{nom}}

|-

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Barnes has won seven Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards,{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=I&artist=INXS |title=ARIA Awards 2008: History: Winners by Artist |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=16 November 2008 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} including his induction into their Hall of Fame in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202052952/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |url-status=dead |archive-date= 2 February 2009 |title=Winners by Award: Hall of Fame |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=11 January 2008 }} As a member of Cold Chisel, he had also been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1992.

The Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) (also known as the Golden Guitar Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They have been held annually since 1973.{{cite web|url=https://www.country.com.au/awards/past-award-winners|title=Past Award Winners|website=Country.com|access-date=2 November 2020|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025171148/https://country.com.au/awards/past-award-winners|url-status=dead}}

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| 2006

| "Birds on a Wire" (with Troy Cassar-Daley)

| Vocal Collaboration of the Year

| {{won}}

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The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia since 2001.{{cite web | title=Events & Programs| website=Live Performance Australia | url=https://liveperformance.com.au/events-programs/ | access-date=4 October 2022}} Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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| 2015

| 30:30 Hindsight Greatest Hits Tour 2014

| Best Australian Contemporary Concert

| {{nom}}

|{{Cite web|url= http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2015/past-nominees-and-winners/ | title= 2015 Helpmann Awards Nominees & Winners|publisher=Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)|website=Helpmann Awards|access-date=8 October 2022}}

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| 2017

| Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories & Songs

| Best Cabaret Performer

| {{nom}}

|{{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2017/past-nominees-and-winners/|title=2017 Helpmann Awards Nominees & Winners|publisher=Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)|website=Helpmann Awards|access-date=8 October 2022}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January or February by the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year.{{cite web |url=http://www.theaureview.com/news/rolling-stone-magazine-australia-announces-3rd-annual-awards-event |title=Rolling Stone Magazine Australia announces 3rd annual awards event |work=The AU Review |date=5 December 2011 |access-date=5 March 2021 |author=Barnes, Amelia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808174029/http://www.theaureview.com/news/rolling-stone-magazine-australia-announces-3rd-annual-awards-event |archive-date=8 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}

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| 2022

| Jimmy Barnes

| Rolling Stone Readers' Choice Award

| {{nom}}

|{{cite web|url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vote-in-rolling-stone-australia-readers-award-2022-36149/l/the-sailor-jerry-2022-rolling-stone-awards-nominees/|title=Have Your Say in This Year's Rolling Stone Australia Reader's Choice Award|website=au.rollingstone.com|date=17 January 2022|access-date=17 February 2022}}

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Countdown was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974 to 1987, it presented music awards from 1979 to 1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards.

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| 1980

| rowspan="3" | himself

| Most Popular Male Performer

| {{nom}}

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| rowspan="2" | 1984

| Best Male Performance in a Video

| {{won}}

|-

| Best Songwriter

| {{nom}}

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| 1985

| himself – "Working Class Man"

| Best Male Performance in a Video

| {{won}}

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| rowspan="2" | 1986

| himself & INXS "Good Times"

| Best Group Performance in a Video

| {{nom}}

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| himself – "Ride the Night Away"

| Best Male Performance in a Video

| {{nom}}

|-

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{{Reflist}}

• Who's Who of Australian Rock – Chris Spencer, Paul McHenry, Zbig Nowara, 2002; {{ISBN|1-86503-891-1}}
• Say it Loud with Alan Whiticker, Published by Gary Allen, Australia, September 2002; {{ISBN|1-875169-90-3}}
• Icons of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes – Scott Podmore. Published by Hyperactive Inc. 2008; {{ISBN|978-0-9804495-0-1}}
• Fraternity: Pub Rock Pioneers - Victor Marshall, Published by Brolga Publishing, Australia, 2021 ISBN 978-1920785109

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• {{Official website|www.jimmybarnes.com}}
• [http://fraternitybandofficial.com.au/jimmy-barnes/ Jimmy Barne's Profile on Fraternity's Official Website]
• [http://www.jimmybarnes.co.uk/ Unofficial Jimmy Barnes website dedicated to collecting everything JB related]

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