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Jimmy Barnes looks fit as a fiddle as he returns to the stage at Bluesfest following open-heart surgery


Jimmy Barnes has shown he is well and truly on the mend after his recent open-heart surgery.

In a tongue-in-cheek reference to his recovery, Barnes made a poignant entrance onto the stage to the tune of Resurrection Shuffle, a track he sung on Easter Saturday in 2013 when he opened for Bruce Springsteen at Hanging Rock in Victoria. At one point, while lying in Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, a gravely-ill Jimmy told his wife Jane: 'I don't think I'm gonna make it.' Reflecting on his health struggles, he admitted he told his wife Jane (pictured) that he didn't think he was going to make it while lying in Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital

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