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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Jim Kellar

Why we love Chisel: Newcastle's connection to legends of rock

Jimmy Barnes leans into the crowd at Hope Estate on December 12, 2015. Picture by Marina Neil

Cold Chisel and Newcastle are very much blood brothers, born of a certain time with a mutual life experience. In the 1970s when Cold Chisel was born as a band, Newcastle was a working-class town through and through.

The band and the city had a lot in common. Fifty years later, the music is still a bridge linking the band and the city. Everyone has grown up, but the intrinsic values hold fast.

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