Jimmy Bain’s Black Leather Coat Worn In Final Performance Before His Death – Provenance LOA

On January 23, 2016, Jimmy Bain died while in his cabin on Def Leppard’s “Hysteria on the High Seas” cruise. He was due to perform on the cruise with his group Last In Line the following day. The performance did not go ahead, and band members informed fans on the cruise that he had been battling pneumonia for some time. The cause of death was determined to be lung cancer. Bain had not been diagnosed with cancer and was only aware of his pneumonia.

James Stewart “Jimmy” Bain (1947- January 2016) was a Scottish musician & song-writer best known for playing bass guitar in the bands of  of Rainbow, Dio, Wild Horses. He also played with Thin Lizzy’s frontman Phil Lynott and co-wrote hit song “Old Town” which the Carrs recorded in 1999, and became a world-wide hit. Jimmy also co-wrote rocks biggest hit songs for Dio such as, Rainbow In The Dark, Last In Line, and many others with Ronnie James D