Working Class Boy (32 page)

1. The big poster for Cold Chisel's
second gig at the Gawler Trotting Track. By this time, we had decided that Orange was not a good name for a band, but the poster was already printed. This star-studded line-up would pull about fifty punters to the big gig, including the horses.
(T
HANKS TO
T
IM
P
RESTWICH
) 2. Cold Chisel in 1973,
on the back of a truck at the Gawler Trotting Track. Our careers at this time were going nowhere, a lot like the truck we were standing on. But this was the first line-up. Ian Moss on 335 Guitar with curly hair and no shoes. Me with flares so wide we could have done an indoor gig underneath them. My dear departed friend Steve Prestwich. A great spirit our Steve, funny and talented. Les Kaczmarek, also gone but not forgotten. And a bearded Don Walker playing a Fender Rhodes piano that he hit so hard that pieces fell off it all through the show. This was the bunch of guys I would take on the world with. My dear friends, my new family, my accomplices.
(B
ARNES
F
AMILY
C
OLLECTION
)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JIMMY BARNES
is a Scottish-born rock singer–songwriter who grew up in Adelaide. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist of the legendary band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most successful and distinctive artists in Australian music history.

A prolific songwriter and performer, Jimmy has been a storyteller for more than 40 years, sharing his life and passions with Australians of all ages at over ten thousand gigs throughout his adopted homeland. In the process he has amassed more #1 albums in Australia than the Beatles: four with Cold Chisel and eleven as a solo artist, including the iconic
For the Working Class Man
. Across his career Jimmy has sold over 12 million albums and he has been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame twice.

Jimmy lives in New South Wales, with Jane, his wife of 35 years, their children, grandchildren and two schnauzers. As well as writing and recording new music and touring virtually nonstop, he is currently writing a series of children's books, working on the second volume of his memoirs and developing a spoken-word tour based on this book.

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First published in Australia in 2016

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Barnes, Jimmy, author.

Working class boy / Jimmy Barnes.

Subjects: Barnes, Jimmy.

Barnes, Jimmy – Childhood and youth.

Rock musicians – Australia – Biography.

Immigrants – Scotland – Biography.

Family violence.

Adelaide (S.A.) – Social conditions.

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Cover design by Matt Stanton, HarperCollins Design Studio

Front cover image: Jimmy Barnes aged four, in Glasgow. Barnes Family Collection

Back cover image: bridge © Jason Charlton