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Black vinyl with printed innersleeves.

Although Jimmy Barnes would elevate himself to the status of a genuine Australian Rock superstar the gravel voiced vocalist, born James Swan, had started out from humble origins in Cowcaddens, Scotland. His erudite and impassioned blend of hard Rocking Blues, Soul ballads and R&B material scored Barnes a popular mass appeal that drew from both the popular music audience and more discriminating Rock fans. To illustrate the quite enormous success of the man, a quite staggering statistic is that a population of twenty million people has brought over seven million Barnes albums. His solo ascendancy was so massive that his former band, Cold Chisel, sold twice as many records, over two million of them, only after they had disbanded. Most of his singles and albums during 85-90 went top five in Australia. However this is where Barnes solo career took off. The self titled album was released in 1985 and its an album in all its rock n roll heart honestly. Jimmy Barnes have hooked up with the likes of Jonathan Cain (The Babys, Journey, Bad English) and backup vocalist Kim Carnes. Sometimes he sounds like Bryan Adams and sometimes like Sammy Hagar.

Track listing:
1. No Second Prize
2. I’d Die to Be With You Tonight
3. Working Class Man
4. Promise Me You’ll Call
5. Boys Cry out for War
6. Paradise
7. Without Your Love
8. American Heartbeat
9. Thick Skinned
10. Ride the Night Away
11. Daylight