Career
They toured both nationally and internationally including through the United States, where they supported Bachman–Turner Overdrive (July 1975) at a stadium concert with an audience of 35,000 people in Seattle. Foreign the group"s third album, Hotspell, Doyle wrote or co-wrote four tracks. Doyle"s musical career began at the age of 15, spanned 45 years, and covered a wide range of music from blues to popular/rock to jazz.
From the late 1960s to 1970, Doyle performed with The Soulmates, Colonel Nolan and The Soul Syndicate, Aesop"s Fables (1968-1969), Moonstone and King Harvest (1970).
Leon Isackson, in his book Behind the Rock and Beyond, recalled that "Jim was a young "Humphrey Bogart look-alike" with an excellent style on Gibson guitar. His suave appearance.. earned him the salubrious nickname of "Diamond Jim"".
Elvin Bishop, a United States blues musician, was impressed with Doyle during Bishop"s first tour of Australia in 1986, "Jimmy Doyle is a hell of a guitar player — I love him". In his later years, Doyle presented a regular radio program called "In the Deep with Jim" on North Shore"s FM99.3 (2NSB), a community radio station in Sydney.
Jimmy Doyle was diagnosed with liver cancer.
On 5 May 2006 he died at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. A tribute concert in his honour, on 26 May, raised money for his family.
