Jimmy BARNES

⬇️ JIMMY BARNES ⬇️

(James Dixon Swan)
DISCOGRAPHY 1984-2021 (56CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

James Dixon Swan AO (born 28 April 1956), better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His career both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.

The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.

James Swan (as Jimmy Barnes was known for the earliest years of his life) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He arrived in Adelaide, South Australia as a 5-year-old on 21 January 1962 with his parents Jim and Dorothy Swan and siblings John, Dorothy, Linda and Alan. Another sister, Lisa, was born in 1962 and the family eventually settled in Elizabeth.

His father, Jim Swan, was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan also works as a rock singer. John encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested initially. Shortly afterward, Barnes' parents divorced. His mother Dorothy soon remarried, to a clerk named Reg Barnes (died 3 September 2013). After her daughter Lisa was teased by a schoolmate about being adopted, Dorothy encouraged her children to change their surname to Barnes.

All of them did except for the eldest brother, John, who would go on to be much better known as Swanee, eventually recording a series of albums under that name from the 1980s. This would later cause confusion about Jimmy Barnes and Swan; many thought them to be half- or stepbrothers.....