Jimmy Barnes shares health update, reveals he’s back rehearsing with Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes has announced he has returned to rehearsals after he underwent surgery earlier this year.

The Australian music legend spent six weeks with a peripherally inserted central catheter sending antibiotics to his heart around the clock.

He ended up in the ICU in August for an undisclosed “remedial” hip surgery following pain in the joint which he felt during a tour of New Zealand.

The hip pain followed approximately a year after the now 68-year-old had open-heart surgery to fend off a bacterial infection.

He appeared to be fighting fit as he toured New Zealand before he was struck down again in early August.

However, the singer has taken to social media to share that he is well on the way to recovery.

On Friday he announced the tube, which allowed him to recuperate at home rather than the hospital, had been removed.

“It’s been restricting and liberating at the same time,” he posted to social media.

“This part of my recovery is now over and with the help of (doctors), nurses, physiotherapists, family, friends, you guys and my Jane, everything is on track.”

Jimmy posted a photo of himself in front of a blackboard calendar, which shows various Cold Chisel rehearsals and shows for the coming months.

“Rehearsing with Cold Chisel this week has topped things off,” the post reads.

“I can even get back behind the wheel. Aah! FREEDOM.”

Cold Chisel is playing a 50th anniversary tour around Australia from early October, plus three shows in New Zealand.

Twenty of the 26 shows are sold out.

- Written by the NZ Herald and republished here with edits and permission.