The theme for the 2008 Appeal is "Keep the Beat" with rock legend Jimmy Barnes being the face of the Appeal.
Promotional videos were shot for the songs This House, The Divine and Monkey Man (which featured Jimmy Barnes).
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The Australian version, released in 2007 included two bonus tracks, the first is a different version of Monkey Man which features Australian singer Jimmy Barnes performing backing vocals.
Apart from its well known beach, Oakura's main attraction is Butlers Reef - a bar and music venue that has showcased many well known New Zealand and international acts, including Dave Dobbyn, Trinity Roots, Gin Wigmore, Katchafire, Supergroove and Jimmy Barnes.
He was endeared by Bears fans, was Best Clubman several times and became a local celebrity with his Jimmy Barnes impressions.
At the MCG the entertainment included Jimmy Barnes and the crowd was addressed by such speakers as the leader of the opposition Kim Beazley.
Jimmy Carter | Jimmy Buffett | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Jimmy Page | Jimmy Durante | Barnes & Noble | Jimmy Wales | Jimmy Dorsey | Jimmy Olsen | Jimmy Eat World | Jimmy Barnes | Jimmy Doolittle | John Barnes | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Jimmy Hoffa | Jimmy Greaves | Jimmy Fallon | Barnes Wallis | Barnes | Jimmy Heath | Jimmy | Jimmy Dean | Jimmy Cliff | Jimmy Choo | Roy Barnes | Julian Barnes | John Barnes (footballer) | Jimmy Walker | Jimmy Rogers | Jimmy McGovern |
Five years later Swan's younger brother Jimmy Barnes would also feature in an NSWRL season advertisement performing alongside Tina Turner.
Bidstrup has also played with Fahrenheit 451(band), Red Angel Panic, The Swingers, Gotham City, The Stetsons, Riptides, Catfish, Dave Steel Band and Jimmy Barnes Band.
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He has played as a session musician of albums by artist such as Swanee, Mondo Rock, Richard Clapton, Broderick Smith, Australian Crawl, Daryl Braithwaite, Dave Steel, James Blundell, Nathan Cavaleri and Jimmy Barnes
During the nineties, Brus toured and recorded with Kevin Borich, Renée Geyer, Jimmy Barnes, Billy Thorpe, Brian Cadd and was bass guitarist in the house band on the highly successful Long Way to the Top tour and album.
Sucker also includes a version of Kiss’s "I Was Made for Lovin' You" which is credited to Paul Stanley and Desmond Child, the noted producer who has also penned over 70 top 40 singles, including Alice Cooper’s "Poison", and who co-wrote "Walk On" with guitarist Joe Lynn Turner for Jimmy Barnes.
He is best known as the composer of the song "Yil Lull", which has been recorded by many other artists including Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Jimmy Barnes, and most recently by the Singers for the Red, Black and Gold, which included Christine Anu, Renée Geyer, Tiddas, Paul Kelly, and Shane Howard.
He then toured around Australia on a support solo tour with Australian/NZ folk artist Brooke Fraser and then went back into the studio to record the You & Me EP with producer Brendan Anthony (INXS, Midnight Oil, Jimmy Barnes, Brianna Carpenter (Australian Idol) in Studios 301, Sydney.
The performers included Glenn Shorrock, James Reyne, Ross Wilson, Todd Hunter, Alan Mansfield, Robert Taylor and Tommy Emmanuel, and a host of other Oz music legends – Men At Work regrouped for the first time in a decade to perform, and the remaining members of INXS performed live for the first time since the death of their lead singer Michael Hutchence; Peter Garrett and Jimmy Barnes duetted on "Dreams of Ordinary Men" and "Speak No Evil".
The music video for Sit On My Knee contains Jimmy Barnes and Dallas Crane showing up at a Chinese pub and singing the song.
He has contributed to albums by many famous artists such as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Jimmy Barnes, Tommy Emmanuel, Wallace Buchanan (Jamiroquai), Yothu Yindi, Alison Brown and Don Burrows, and filmed a documentary about Cape York with Jacques Cousteau.
Fellow band member, Jimmy Barnes, later planted a flame tree in Prestwich's memory at the National Arboretum Canberra.