Jimmy Barnes has fallen unwell simply days after opening the Mushroom 50 Dwell live performance in Melbourne.
The Australian rock legend was hospitalized and obtained therapy after contracting bacterial pneumonia, forcing the cancelation of a deliberate efficiency on the seas.
“I’m sorry to let you understand that I’ve been receiving intravenous antibiotics during the last 36 hours to deal with bacterial pneumonia,” he writes on a social publish.
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“Sadly,” he continues, “this has stopped me travelling to Noumea to affix Rock The Boat 2023 as deliberate. My band will nonetheless carry out on board, along with my daughter Mahalia and different particular friends.”
Barnes went on to apologize “for the inconvenience and disappointment this has triggered,” and factors out his docs have ordered two days’ mattress relaxation. “The timing couldn’t be worse.”
He’s anticipated to make a full restoration in time to carry out stay at By The C in Torquay, on Saturday, Dec. 2.
In terms of dominating the nationwide charts, nobody can contact Barnesy, as he’s affectionately recognized in these components.
The Scotland-born singer has 15 leaders on the ARIA Chart, an all-time report, most just lately topping the tally final December with Blue Christmas (through Liberation/Common). Together with his 5 leaders with Chilly Chisel, Barnes boasts an unprecedented 20 No. 1s, comfortably eclipsing the Beatles (with 14), Madonna (12), Eminem and U2 (11).
Barnes has overcome a number of well being points lately. In 2022, he wiped clear his touring schedule when surgeons gave him the information that he required again and hip surgical procedure.
He additionally underwent again surgical procedure in 2014, which saved him in hospital on Fathers Days (Sept. 7)
The 67-year-old singer is twice inducted into the ARIA Corridor of Fame, first with Chilly Chisel (in 1993), and once more as a solo artist (2005), and is the primary Australian solo act to have a No. 1 album in each decade for the reason that Nineteen Eighties.
The rocker was in full voice on the prime of the Mushroom 50 Dwell live performance at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Enviornment, the place he delivered a two-song efficiency of “No Second Prize” and his signature tune, “Working Class Man.”
