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Australia's Working Class Man, Jimmy Barnes, has been performing in front of audiences for more than four decades as a solo artist and with Cold Chisel, and he shows no signs of slowing down.
He has...
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For a generation of Australian music fans, Cold Chisel are the Aussie pub rock band who broke the mould and whose songs are celebrated as anthems.
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide, South Australia in...
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Cold Chisel are the quintessential Aussie band who wrote the soundtrack for a generation.
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Lisa Wilkinson, Don Walker, Steve Liebmann and Chris Haywood recently visited the NFSA. Watch the interviews here.
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Publicity materials relating to the Cold Chisel Last Stand (1983) music documentary. Included in this set are a cinema poster, media release and newspaper reviews from The Sydney Morning Herald and...
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In this excerpt from Mark Opitz's interview for the NFSA Oral History program, he explains one of the reasons why Cold Chisel were not able to break through in the US market.
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Vince Lovegrove, who briefly managed Cold Chisel in the 1970s, talks about the uniqueness of the band, what made their act unusual and how he felt sure that they would be a success.
He was...
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This is an excerpt from the music documentary Cold Chisel Last Stand featuring producer Mark Opitz discussing the Circus Animals concert tour and how Cold Chisel were a band who loved to give back to...
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Jimmy Barnes shares his memory of the first known photo of Cold Chisel from 1973 in an exclusive interview with the NFSA.
The photo was taken in Adelaide outside the Women's Liberation Hall and it...
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In this excerpt from the NFSA's interview with Jimmy Barnes he talks about wanting the band to be chaotic and how he pushed them hard.
