Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes ( born April 28, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland; born James Dixon Swan ), nicknamed Barnesy, is an Australian rock musician.
Career
When Jimmy Barnes was four years old, his family emigrated from Scotland to Australia and settled in Adelaide. Originally his name was James Swan, he has his new surname from his stepfather from the second marriage of his mother.
As a teenager, he first played in a band called Tarkus before settling with 17 years as a singer joined the musicians that were announced at the end of the 70s / early 80s as Cold Chisel about Australia beyond. At the height of their success, the band separated and Barnes immediately launched a solo career. Only a few months after the last band album landed at # 1 in Australia in April 1984, he released his solo debut Bodyswerve, which brought him back again to the chart peak.
Once on his second album, Working Class Man landed again in the year at No. 1, he tried on the international success he had with the band to tie. In the U.S., the rearrangement appeared from his first two albums under his name as the title and it just missed the Top 100 on the album charts, as well as the following album Freight Train Heart, which was his third number one in Australia. For this he was able to place in the U.S. two songs on the Hot 100. In Europe, the compilation was published under the title A Week Away from Paradise, but could only occasionally some success, for example in Sweden, where this and the follow-up album was among the top 25.
In the UK, Jimmy Barnes had only one hit, a cover of Easybeats Good Times songs recorded with the band INXS, which additionally comes from the soundtrack of the film The Lost Boys. She came in 1987 in the UK charts and was in New Zealand even a number -one hit. In the same year he had with Too Much Is not Enough Love also his only number-one song in Australia under its previous twelve Top 10 hits. In the U.S. there was a number - three hit in the mainstream rock charts.
While he could not maintain the success internationally, be continued his series of top albums. With the live LP Barnestorming, Two Fires and Souldeep he continued until 1991, continuing its series of number-one albums. The latter album is a throwback to the soul and R & B of the '60s and includes cover versions of old hits partly together with other artists. With John Farnham, he took on, for example, When Something Is Wrong with My Baby, which reached as a single space 3. By Tina Turner, he took on their old hit River Deep, Mountain High, which was published together with a common intake of Turner's then current hit Simply the Best on single. With over 600,000 copies sold was Souldeep Barnes successful album and the best-selling album of the year in Australia.
Although the success continued through the entire 90s and also the following three albums all landed again at # 2 on the Australian charts, brought him his careless handling of money and its lavish productions and tours in financial trouble, so he mid-90s his property had to sell and temporarily move abroad.
Throughout his solo time, there were always rumors about a reunion of Cold Chisel and again old recordings and compilations of the band had success in the charts. And in 1997 there was actually a revised edition, which led to the number-one album The Last Wave of Summer. Then although there was always one or the other joint appearance with the old bandmates, but already 1999, Jimmy Barnes, his solo career with the album Love and Fear continues. The following year he established with Soul Deeper in to the Soul album of 1991. Internationally, he was in 2000 with an appearance seen at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sydney. This was followed by his first extended break.
Only in 2005 he released his next album Double Happiness, which contains eingesungene songs exclusively in the duet, some of them with his own children. In the album charts, it reached the best- of album hits in 1996 for the eighth time place 1 And after 1993 as a member of Cold Chisel he was inducted as a solo artist into the ARIA Hall of Fame this year.
Despite heart surgery published in 2007 a new album out in the Blue and two years later, The Rhythm and the Blues. He reached for the ninth time number one in the Australian album charts, which he is the sole record holder among the local artists.
Discography
Albums
- Published in USA as Jimmy Barnes, in Europe as A Week Away from Paradise