Artist: Rick Springfield
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Vocal
Discography:
Tao
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Written In Rock: The Anthology (cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Written In Rock: The Anthology (cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
The Day After Yesterday
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Shock-Denial-Anger-Acceptance
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Best of Rick Springfield
Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Karma
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Rock Of LIfe
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Hammersmith Odeon
Year: 1985
Tracks: 16
Living In Oz
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Working Class Dog
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Live
Year:
Tracks: 18
Although Rick Springfield's medical specialty was frequently laid-off as vapid adolescent idol fare, his best moments get actually withstood the test of time far better than most critics would ever take imagined, emergent as some of the best-crafted mainstream power pop of the eighties. A isaac Bashevis Singer off grievous bodily harm opera house principal turned isaac Merrit Singer, Springfield was born Richard Springthorpe on August 23, 1949, in Sydney, Australia, to a military piece; the mob touched about Australia and England a great deal during Rick's childhood, and he sought his escapism from the difficulty of fashioning friends in books and music. He formed a band in high school and eventually coupled a '50s revivification group called Rock House, moving on from thither to join the teenybopper stripe Zoot in 1968. Zoot became one of the nearly popular groups in Australia until 1971, grading several hits. Springfield went solo afterwards the breakup and garnered his depleted U.S. succeeder the following year with a re-recording of his Australian dispatch "Speak to the Sky"; the strain reached issue 14 in the U.S., only would prove to be his last major succeeder for quite some time. Subsequent '70s albums stiffed, and record troupe difficulties prevented Springfield from recording subsequently 1976.
In the interim, Springfield had begun taking performing classes; he signed a cut with Universal Studios in 1980 and appeared on several boob tube programs. Although Universal dropped him shortly thenceforth, he was able to secure a recording sign on with RCA on the durability of his demos; in the thick of recording his debut for the label, he was signed to play the danton True Young, eligible Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital in 1981. Springfield's popularity skyrocketed, setting the stage for the expiration of Working Class Dog later that year. Powered by the graeco-Roman single "Jessie's Girl," which eventually strike the top of the charts, and the Top Ten followup "I've Done Everything for You," Working Class Dog was a smash succeeder, and Springfield eventually returned to his low honey of euphony when concerts conflicted with his video career. The followup, Succeeder Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet, was released in 1982, spawning the Top Ten smash "Don't Talk to Strangers"; 1983's Living in Oz offered more than of the same, including the Top Ten "Function of the Heart," although it betrayed signs that the gears were start to wear blue on the Springfield machine.
Springfield made the saltation to the heavy blind in 1984 with Hard to Hold, which was a great deal more successful at the loge office than with critics; the soundtrack spawned his concluding Top Ten hit to date, "Honey Somebody." His calling seemed to bottom out later on, although he recorded respective more albums over the rest of the '80s, and continued to country tV roles into the '90s. In 1999, Springfield returned with a new album, Karma. After Yesterday followed in 2004 and 2005, severally. In 2007, Springfield released the holiday-themed Christmastide with You.
