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    JIMMY BARNES: FUN LOVIN’ CRIMINAL

    May 01, 2019 5 minutes

    You may consider yourself a busy person, and truthfully you may well be right. Here’s the real question, though: Are you Jimmy Barnes busy? Here’s a brief highlight reel from the last four years: One new Cold Chisel album, a new solo album of soul covers, a collaboration with The Wiggles (resulting in an ARIA-winning children’s album and accompanying book), a cross-generational meme thanks to a cameo in Kirin J Callinan’s “Big Enough”, two best-selling memoirs, a documentary based on the first of those books, three national tours, and a partridge in a pear tree. How on earth Barnes found time to do anything, let alone write and record a brand-new album, is anyone’s guess.

    “I’ve always just liked to keep active and keep busy,” reasons the man himself, on the line to Australian Guitar from Sydney prior to a live performance taping. “I’ve started writing a third book, and I’ve just sent

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