Rick Springfield Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Boston Film Festival Prize for Best Music for "An Affair of the Heart" in 2012
• Performed with the groups Rock House and Zoot before going solo in 1971 with "Speak to the Sky," which was a hit song in Australia
• Began playing guitar during high school and formed his first band, the Jordy Boys
• Was signed by Capitol Records in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles to record his debut solo album "Beginnings․"
• Published his memoir "Late, Late at Night" in 2010 and the novel "Magnificent Vibration" in 2014
• Began his acting career in the mid-1970s, appearing on shows like "The Rockford Files" and "Wonder Woman," and was cast as Dr․ Noah Drake in "General Hospital" in 1980
• Best known as a musician and singer-songwriter who became famous for the hit song "Jessie's Girl․"
• Released the album "Working Class Dogs" in 1980, which featured his most popular hit songs "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything For You․"
• Found his early image as a teen pop idol to be disappointing and moved to Columbia Records in 1973 in an effort to change it, recording the album "Comic Book Heroes․"
• Appeared in several films in the 1980s and 1990s, including "Hard to Hold," "Dead Reckoning," and "A Change of Place․"