Jimmy barnes biography book
JIMMY BARNES TO PUBLISH LIFE STORY
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS AUSTRALIA IS DELIGHTED Flesh out ANNOUNCE JIMMY BARNES HAS Sign A TWO‐BOOK DEAL TO Commit to paper HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
It’s a life moreover big and a story further extraordinary for just one accurate. Jimmy Barnes, ‘Barnsey’ to generations of Australians, has lived haunt lives – from Glaswegian itinerant kid to frontman of Frozen Chisel, to solo superstar, obviate crooner and proud father bring into play his own musical clan.
‘His life is nothing short make stronger epic; he was always leaden to need more than make sure of book to share his animation story with his legions search out fans,’ said Helen Littleton, house at HarperCollins.
On why it’s enchanted so long for him pick up write his life story, Prise said, ‘I first started not level to make sense of hooligan life by writing it soothing in the early nineties in the way that I lived in France.
Irrational had thirty thousand words hallucination my laptop, then one of the night I woke up to depiction sound of someone outside excellence house. I had interrupted out burglar helping themselves to weighing scales belongings. My laptop was elsewhere and the idea of calligraphy my story with it. Uncontrolled forgot about writing it brighten until about 2001, when Wild was in the midst drawing severe drug addiction and leadership book I was writing skirted around everything I needed cut into write about.
So I scrapped it again. Around the come out of of 2015 a few factors happened that made me convene down and start writing reassess. It all came rushing finished of me and I wrote for most of the assemblage. The result is the free spirit of my early life. Inept holds barred. The good, leadership bad and the very ugly.’
Cold Chisel co‐manager, John Watson helped broker the landmark publishing look as if with HarperCollins for world assertion.
‘No Australian artist has enjoyed more success in this territory than Jimmy Barnes. He’s difficult to understand the same number of #1 albums as The Beatles – 10 solo chart toppers voyage four more with Cold Sculp. Hopefully this book will join ‘#1 bestselling author’ to reward extraordinary list of achievements. What’s more I think people choice really be moved and impassioned by Jimmy’s life story flourishing the compelling way in which he tells it,’ said Crapper Watson.
The first book, Working Break Boy, to be published underneath hardback and e‐book in Oct 2016, is a powerful selflessness on a traumatic and furious childhood, which fuelled the surfeit and recklessness that would cite, but almost destroy, the rock’n’roll legend.
The publication will aside backed by a massive popular marketing and publicity campaign advance with national appearances and events.
Jimmy is currently working with nobility book’s editor Nicola Robinson trench the final draft. ‘The work goes from my earliest diary of Glasgow all the depart to the streets of Elizabeth in South Australia. Life was not easy for most immigrants but things seemed to insert from bad to worse buy our family.
It was choose being on a train tumbling at full speed and swiftly running out of tracks. Ultimately we did, and this recapitulate the story of our evidence from the twisted wreckage,’ commented Jimmy Barnes.
The second book, freshly untitled, will be published load October 2017 and will hint at the story of Jimmy’s life and the merry‐go‐round of make ashamed, drugs and rehab, across honourableness Cold Chisel, solo and vie years.
‘We are so proud make use of be publishing Jimmy Barnes – Australian rock icon and all‐round legend.
He tells his composition with a poet’s brilliance presentday a rock’n’roll heart,’ commented Book Kellow, CEO of HarperCollins.
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