Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Jimmy Barnes’ 40 YEARS OF LOVE

When Jimmy Barnes spied dark-haired stunner Jane Mahoney at an event in Canberra in November 1979, the Aussie rock legend knew she was The One. All that stood between them was the fact that she wasn’t quite as interested – and that he was dating not one, but two other women at the time!

Despite the Cold Chisel frontman’s somewhat awkward prior commitments –, Jimmy wrote, “I’d met a lot of girls in my life, but no one had ever stopped me in my tracks like that girl did. She was way out of my class, but I loved her from the minute I saw her. Jane would change my life.”

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