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Jimmy Barnes Is ‘Well And Truly on the Mend’ After Open-Heart Surgery
“I’m well and truly on the mend,” he writes in a post Tuesday (Jan. 9) on Instagram.
Those images and updates paint a happy picture — the Cold Chisel frontman is back on his feet, relaxing and enjoying food with family, smiling for the camera. Last November, after opening the Mushroom 50 Live concert at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, where he powered his way through “No Second Prize” and his signature song, “Working Class Man,” Barnes contracted bacterial pneumonia. As a result, he canceled an appearance at Rock the Boat cruise festival in Noumea, New Caledonia, then another, a concert at By The C in Torquay on Dec. 2, when, “despite everyone’s best efforts,” he wrote at the time, “the bacterial infection… has apparently now spread to my heart.”
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