The following interview is taken from the best of Andrew Denton's award-winning Enough Rope series, ranking among the most penetrating discussions from the 2000s with celebrities, larger-than-life personalities and average Joes. For the last 30 years, Jimmy Barnes has had the hardest-working vocal cords in Australian music. Andrew Denton first saw him back in '78. His ears are still ringing. Offstage, Jimmy's lived a life every bit as loud as his singing. He's partied hard, played hard, loved hard, fallen hard, and lived to laugh about it all. He crawled off his sick bed to do this interview - he's got a little bit of flu - and he still rocked the house.