Driving Wheels

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"Driving Wheels"
Driving Wheels by Jimmy Barnes.png
Single by Jimmy Barnes
from the album Freight Train Heart
ReleasedJanuary 1988 (1988-01)
Recorded1987
Label Mushroom
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jonathan Cain, Mike Stone, Lobby Loyde
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology
"Too Much Ain't Enough Love"
(1987)
"Driving Wheels"
(1988)
"I'm Still on Your Side"
(1988)

"Driving Wheels" is a song by Australian rock singer, Jimmy Barnes. It was released in January 1988 as the second single from Barnes' third studio album, Freight Train Heart . The song peaked at number 12 in Australia while reaching No. 19 on the New Zealand Singles Chart. [1]

Contents

Track listing

7" single (K 488) /12" single (X 13308)'

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single. [2]

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 12
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [4] 19

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References

  1. "New Zealand Charts – Jimmy Barnes". Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  2. Video on YouTube
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 27. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
  4. "Jimmy Barnes – Driving Wheels". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 24 January 2021.