HOLA,   what a lovely day you must have had,    i love it when i can play my music all day,     MISS SAIGON was one of the live shows i missed when it played melbourne,   but only a couple of months ago i bought the dvd of the show,     must agree,   good music,   i like 'the american dream'        i have the dvd of CAROUSEL,   OKLAHOMA,      SOUTH PACIFIC,     i havent played them for ages,   i will have to get them out,         must get to the shops tomorrow,   ROD STEWARTs new albulm is out,    cant wait,   i love him,     YES,   anthony warlow is very good,    i have seen him in a couple of shows,    if your son looks like him,  i cant wait until we do our next show and he plays our music,   lol,   cant imagine a world without music,    

I've never been a great Jimmy Barnes fan in the past but after watching Working Class Boy last night on television, I have to say, I was pretty choked up and have a great respect for Barnsie. To rise above all the squalor and unhappiness in his life goes to show what can be achieved if a person tries hard enough. 

He defied the odds, good on you Jimmy!

yes,  jimmy barnes had a tough start in life,  but i suspect that a lot of our posters had just as rough a time,     not the incest so much,    but  a very hard upbringing,    i count myself very lucky when i see/hear these tales,       compared to these tales i had a very privilaged life,  

Yes Cats , some have had terrible lives. My Dad, the youngest of 5 children, lost his Father when he was 5. His Dad was only 43. His poor Mother had to send the girls off to live with their Aunt and the boys were sent away to a boarding school up in the Himalayas (the poor peoples school), and she went back to Nursing so she could afford to live, no handouts in those days. He said it was a terrible existence and he said he cried all the way in the train. Yet he never complained and accepted his fate. He made his own way in life and didn't need drugs or alcohol to hide his life experiences. 

HOLA,   sounds a bit like my own father,   his mother died when young, and his father couldnt look after him, and his brother,   they were sent to live with there grandmother,  then an aunt,    went to work at 13  in the cotton mills in lancashire,   but he educated himself,    and became a french teacher, also a piano teacher,   he was a truly lovely man,   pity not more like him in the world,     my mother never washed a dish after meals,   he used to say,  ;if MAY if good enough to look after me,    she doesnt need to do dishes,    he was a very moderate drinker,  if fact you could say he didnt drink,   as it was only on special occasions,  and then only a glass,   he did smoke,  but he lived to be 82 so  not bad,       the kids today dont know wha its like to work hard,   [and im glad they dont have to find out that way'      he never complained ,  and made sure my sister and brother and i never wanted,  

Cats - a lovely story indeed. I'm not knocking Jimmy Barnes but I find it annoying how he seems to be forever on the T.V promoting his books and movie film. His son David Campbell is 10 times the talent.

HOLA i agree his  time on tv is getting tiresome,   every 5 minutes it is his story,    i like DAVID CAMPBELL,     he is a good singer in his own right,    and as you say,  much better entertainer than his father,     i think [not sure]    he did the BOBBY DARRIN story,     one i missed,