{"id":17257,"date":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/barnes-admits-he-nearly-pulled-parts-of-unflinching-bio\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:00:00","slug":"barnes-admits-he-nearly-pulled-parts-of-unflinching-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/barnes-admits-he-nearly-pulled-parts-of-unflinching-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes admits he nearly pulled parts of unflinching bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jimmy Barnes says he wanted to make some final changes to his bare-all biography, \u2018Working Class Boy\u2019, but decided not to at the final moment.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in production now. I can\u2019t change it,\u201d Jimmy told his son David Campbell in an interview for News Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave it to me to do the last read and the last edit while my mum was on her deathbed\u2026 I wanted to change stuff, but I just said, \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to read it again.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine the dilemmas I\u2019ve had before everybody reads it, all the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Barnes speaks with Matthew Pantelis \u2013 LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/283877660&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The book is receiving praise for its honest telling of the violent and desperate circumstances of Jimmy\u2019s childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought my childhood was really normal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 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\u2019s probably more normal than we think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/has-the-dustin-martin-adelaide-crows-rumour-got-any-legs\"><strong>HAS THE DUSTIN MARTIN\/ADELAIDE CROWS RUMOUR GOT LEGS?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/kane-knocks-crows-hype-rowey-returns-fire\"><strong>KANE CORNES CALLS OUT CROWS HYPE &#8212; ROWEY FIRES BACK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Barnes says he wanted to make some final changes to his bare-all biography, \u2018Working Class Boy\u2019, but decided not to at the final moment. \u201cIt\u2019s in production now. 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