Jimmy Barnes says he wanted to make some final changes to his bare-all biography, ‘Working Class Boy’, but decided not to at the final moment.
“It’s in production now. I can’t change it,” Jimmy told his son David Campbell in an interview for News Ltd.
“They gave it to me to do the last read and the last edit while my mum was on her deathbed… I wanted to change stuff, but I just said, ‘No, I’m not going to read it again.’
“Imagine the dilemmas I’ve had before everybody reads it, all the family.”
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The book is receiving praise for its honest telling of the violent and desperate circumstances of Jimmy’s childhood.
“I thought my childhood was really normal,” he said.
“But when I started writing about it, I realised it was really f*cking abnormal. But the saddest part was, by the end of it, by the time I finished writing the book, I started to realise that it’s probably more normal than we think.
“That’s why, for me, one of the most important parts about the book is to share the experience, because there are people out there right now going through the same thing, and probably more than when I was young.”
