From medicating backstage to meditating: Barnesy’s trip down memory lane We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement “I’m not slowing down,” says Jimmy Barnes matter of factly in the preface to his award-winning memoir, Working Class Man. In those same pages – recounting a remarkable journey that began with earlier memoir Working Class Boy – you can almost hear the indefatigable rock’n’roller chuckling out loud at the suggestion his life story has been “an adventure to say the least” before adding that along the way he found “the love of my life and we had a beautiful family” that helped save him from a troubled, turbulent past.