TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnes,Jimmy
TI  - Working class boy
SN  - 9781460752135
AV  - ML420.B176 B37 2016
U1  - 781.66092 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers Australia
KW  - Barnes, Jimmy.
KW  - Barnes, Jimmy,
KW  - Barnes, Jimmy
KW  - Cold Chisel (Musical group)
KW  - Scottish Australians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Rock groups
KW  - Australia
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Singers
KW  - fast
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Services for
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Rock musicians
KW  - FastBack collection
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Rock musicians - Australia - Biography
KW  - Family violence
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Adelaide (S. A.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Adelaide (S. Aust.)
KW  - Adelaide (S.A.)
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Adelaide
KW  - Australian
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - "A memoir of running away. Long before Cold Chisel, long before 'Barnesy', there was the true story of James Dixon Swan" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: One.The Best Sparring partner in Britain -- Two.Next to nothing -- three.Man, that's ma hobby! -- Four.A Real Glasgow hard man -- Five.Nothing Like a romantic sea cruise -- Six.Sunny South Australia -- Seven.The City of tomorrow -- Eight.Cardboard Inside our shoes -- Nine.The sound of breaking glass -- Ten.Messing with the kids -- Eleven.The Last bit of light -- Twelve.We were damaged goods -- Thirteen.Please let it be her -- Fourteen.Because I love you, son -- Fifteen.Smoke and mirrors -- Sixteen.The Time our worlds collided -- Seventeen.Don't let the name down -- Eighteen.Everybody Thought I was fearless -- Nineteen.A Murderer but a good bloke -- Twenty.Cheap Speed and beer -- Twenty-One.Who had hit who -- Twenty-Two.White Trash -- Twenty-Three.What are we going to do now? -- Twenty-Four.You'll hear more if you shut up -- Twenty-Five.Wouldn't be dead for quids -- Twenty-Six.Do you want to join our band? -- Twenty-Seven.I was never coming back; General
N2  - Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that would define, but almost destroy, the rock'n'roll legend. This is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. It is a memoir burning with the frustration and frenetic energy of teenage sex, drugs, violence and ambition for more than what you have. Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Jimmy Barnes's childhood memoir is at once the story of migrant dreams fulfilled and dashed. Arriving in Australia in the Summer of 1962, things went from bad to worse for the Swan family -Dot, Jim and their six kids. The scramble to manage in the tough northern suburbs of Adelaide in the 60s would take its toll on the Swans as dwindling money, too much alcohol, and fraying tempers gave way to violence and despair. This is the story a family's collapse, but also a young boy's dream to escape the misery of the suburbs with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join a rock n roll band and get out of town for good
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