Working class boy / Jimmy Barnes.

By: Barnes, Jimmy [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: x, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781460752135Other title: Working class boy : a memoir of running awaySubject(s): Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy, 1956- -- Childhood and youth | Barnes, Jimmy, 1956-, -- Childhood and youth | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy -- Childhood and youth | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy | Barnes, Jimmy -- Childhood and youth | Cold Chisel (Musical group) | 1900-1999 | Scottish Australians -- Biography | Rock groups -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Singers | Immigrants -- Services for -- Australia | Social conditions | Rock musicians | Immigrants | FastBack collection | Barnes, Jimmy | Autobiographies | Rock musicians -- Australia -- Biography | Rock musicians - Australia - Biography | Family violence | Immigrants -- Scotland -- Biography | Adelaide (S. A.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Adelaide (S. Aust.) -- Social conditions | Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social life and customs | Australia | Scotland | South Australia -- Adelaide | Adelaide (S. Aust.) -- Social life and customs | Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social conditions | Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | AustralianGenre/Form: Autobiographies | Autobiographies. | Biography. | Biographies. | Autobiographies. | Autobiographies | Autobiographies | Autobiographies | Autobiographies | Autobiographies | Autobiographies. DDC classification: 781.66092 LOC classification: ML420.B176 | B37 2016
Contents:
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.
Awards: Shortlisted, Biography Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, year 2017.Summary: 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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"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.

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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Shortlisted, Biography Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, year 2017.

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