Moving with his family from Glasgow to South Australia at five, Jimmy fronted the beloved rock band Cold Chisel from 1973 till 1984, and the next year found his feet as a solo performer on his second album For the Working Class Man.
In the decades following, Jimmy came to be considered Australia’s premier rock icon and jumped off many a PA, but in 2023 was forced by ill health to confront the fact he wasn’t “invincible”.