"This Was Far Too Serious A Subject... To Allow To Get Into Fiction" | Jimmy Barnes On New Doco "Working Class Boy"

Fresh from the premiere of his incredible new movie Working Class Boy, Jimmy Barnes joined The Big Breakfast to explain why he chose to turn his best-selling book of the same name into a documentary.

Speaking to Marto, Robin and the Moonman, the rock legend said that the focus, for him, was always on the truth of his story and, for that reason, there was no need to sensationalise the subject.

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Barnesy also chatted about the journey of making the documentary, which opens in cinemas across the country on Thursday August 23.

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