“Around 2001, I went to rehab in Arizona, and I started to see what was going on and how the past affected me. I started to get a grip on it. But over the next decade, I reverted to the behaviour I used to protect myself when I was young - being mindless, being defeatist and full of bravado.”

Australian rock singer

Jimmy Barnes is an Australian rock singer, known for his work as a solo artist and as the lead vocalist of Cold Chisel. Born James Dixon Barnes, he became one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. His career spans several styles, including hard rock, blues rock, soul, R&B, country, country rock, and electronic music. By 2022, he had scored 16 solo number-one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with Cold Chisel in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2005.