We have tickets for a festival he’s headlining next month. I’m sure the promoters will line up someone else who’ll put on a good show but, having seen Jimmy at this festival before, I know he’ll be missed.
Wishing Jimmy a full, and speedy, recovery. The man’s a national treasure!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Musician Jimmy Barnes has revealed on social media that he is going “under the knife” after a bacterial infection he has been battling had spread to his heart.
“Despite everyone’s best efforts the bacterial infection I’ve been battling over the last fortnight has apparently now spread to my heart,” Barnes wrote in a post on social media this morning.
Barnes’s son and TV presenter David Campbell said his father was in “great hands” and fortunate the condition was picked up.
Barnes had been confident he would recover in time for shows scheduled for December, January and February, but in the latest update said the health setback will “take him out of action for a while”.
Barnes was forced to abandon a planned tour in late 2022 to undergo emergency back and hip surgery due to “constant and severe pain”.
Barnes is the former singer from Australian rock band Cold Chisel and has had a successful solo career, including anthems such as Working Class Man.
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