Rick Springfield

Birth Name:

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

Birth Place:

Sydney, Australia

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor, Music department

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․"

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