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Rick Springfield was born Richard Lewis Springthorpe in Merrylands, Sydney AUSTRALIA, on August 23, 1949; at the age 10 he and his family moved to England, meanwhile he started playing the guitar.
Springfield played in several short-lived outfits before he joined Zoot. This band became popular in Australia in the early '70s with the cover of "Eleanor Rigby".

In 1971, the singer+guitarist, left the group for his solo career and his first single, "Speak To The Sky", reached the top 10 on the Australian chart.
The following year Springfield recorded in London his first solo album, "Beginnings"; the record cracked the top 40 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart and "Speak To The Sky" peaked at #14 on the Pop Singles chart.
Relocating to Los Angeles, in 1973 he released a second album, "Comic Book Heroes", which sold poorly.
He followed it up with "Mission Magic" only a year later, an album released in conjunction with a cartoon aired on ABC.
In 1976 Springfield recorded his fourth album, "Wait For Night", it included the single "Take A Hand" which barely missed the U.S. Top 40 chart.
During the next four years he took on acting roles in several TV shows including "Rockford Files", "Wonder Woman" and "Battlestar Galactica".
He returned to the music scene in 1981 with "Working Class Dog", the record, released via RCA Records, rose to the #7 position on the U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart scoring the smash hit single "Jessie's Girl", the track peaked at #1 on the U.S. Pop chart and at #10 on The Mainstream Rock list, it also topped the Australian chart and broke the top 10 in Britain; the follow-up single, "I've Done Everything For You", reached the #8 spot on the U.S. Pop chart and the final single "Love Is Alright Tonite" entered the top 20 on the same chart pushing the album to multi-platinum status. In early 1982 "Jessie's Girl" was awarded a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance.
Springfield's next release, aptly titled, "Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet", went straight to #1 on the Pop Albums chart in America spawning no less than four hugely successful singles: "Don't Talk To Strangers" peaked at #2 on the Pop Sales chart and at #11 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks; "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" reached the #21 position on the Pop Singles list, "I Get Excited" has also entered the Top 40 and "Calling All Girls" hit #4 on The Mainstream Rock chart.
1983's "Living In Oz" reached #12 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart becoming his third straight platinum selling LP, it included "Affair Of The Heart" which peaked at #9 on the Pop Singles chart, plus two more top 40 hits: "Human Touch" and "Souls".
The next year saw Rick Springfield release an album of material from the late '70s, the set titled "Beautiful Feelings" reached the #78 slot on The Billboard 200 Albums list spawning the American top 40 hit, "Bruce"; he also finished his first feature-length movie, "Hard To Hold", the soundtrack to this film tose to #16 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and contained several Springfield songs, including "Love Somebody" which hit #5 on The Billboard Hot 100, "Bop 'Til You Drop" which cracked the top 20 and "Don't Walk Away" reached #26 on the same chart.
He returned in 1985 with "Tao", his fifth album of new material in five years, the record peaked at #21 on The Billboard Top 200 and generated two American Top 40 singles: "State Of The Heart" and "Celebrate Youth"; The Cathode Ray tour, including a performance at Live Aid, followed.
After a two year hiatus from touring and recording Springfield issued his ninth album, "Rock Of Life", in 1988, it sold poorly and failed to rise higher than #55 in U.S. but the title-track hit #22 on The Billboard Hot 100.
The following year he began work on a series of TV movies for both regular and TV networks.

After nearly ten years of silence, Rick Springfield returned to recording in the late '90s, in 1998 to be exact; the singer+guitarist recorded "Karma" which was released in April of 1999 in the United States, but the album scraped the bottom of The Billboard 200 list. He spent the remainder of the year touring and promoting "Karma", during the summer tour of 2000 Springfield recorded "The Greatest Hits Alive" which was finally released in early 2001.
Springfield released a new studio-album, "Shock / Denial / Anger / Acceptance", in February 2004 on his own Gomer Records label, it peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and the single "Beautiful You" hit the top 30 of The Adult Contemporary chart.
Self-described by the artist as an eclectic mix that's warm and soulful, his 2005's album, "The Day After Yesterday", featured Rick Springfield's interpretations of all hit songs that, he says, “I wish I'd written”. The CD came out in July that year with an accompanying radio-single, the cover of Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings".

Springfield are back with a new album and a new single, called "What's Victoria's Secret?".

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Beginnings

(1972)

1. Mother Can You Carry Me
2. Speak To The Sky
3. What Would The Children Think
4. 1000 Years
5. The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On)
6. Hooky Joe
7. I Didn't Mean To Love You
8. Come On Everybody
9. Why?
10. Ballad Of Annie Goodbody

 

Comic Book Heroes

(1973)

1. Comic Book Heroes
2. I'm Your Superman
3. Weep No More
4. Why Are You Waiting?
5. Believe In Me
6. Misty Water Woman
7. The Liar
8. The Photograph
9. Bad Boy
10. Born Out Of Time
11. Do You Love Your Children?

 

Mission Magic

(1974)

1. We're Gonna Have A Good Time
2. It's Driving Me Crazy
3. Free And Easy
4. You Can Really Do It (If You Try)
5. On The Other Side
6. You Can't Judge A Book
7. Love Is The Key
8. You'd Better Think Twice
9. Welcome To The Rodeo
10. I Want You
11. Just Gotta Sing
12. If We Help One Another
13. Starlight, Starbright
14. Catch Me If You Can
15. I Know That It's Magic
16. Theme From Mission Magic

 

Wait For Night

(1976)

1. Take A Hand
2. Goldfever
3. One Broken Heart
4. Where's All The Love
5. Archangel
6. Jessica
7. Million Dollar Face
8. Old Gangsters Never Die
9. Treat Me Gently In The Morning
10. Life Is A Celebration

 

Working Class Dog

(1981)

1. Love Is Alright Tonite
2. Jessie's Girl
3. Hole In My Heart
4. Carry Me Away
5. I've Done Everything For You
6. The Light Of Love
7. Everybody's Girl
8. Daddy's Pearl
9. Red Hot And Blue Love
10. Inside Silvia

 

Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet

(1982)

1. Calling All Girls
2. I Get Excited
3. What Kind Of Fool Am I?
4. Kristina
5. Tonight
6. Black Is Black
7. Don't Talk To Strangers
8. How Do You Talk To Girls
9. Still Crazy For You
10. The American Girl
11. Just One Kiss
12. April 24, 1981

 

Living In Oz

(1983)

1. Human Touch
2. Alyson
3. Affair Of The Heart
4. Living In Oz
5. Me And Johnny
6. Motel Eyes
7. Tiger By The Tail
8. Souls
9. I Can't Stop Hurting You
10. Like Father Like Son

 

Beautiful Feelings

(1984)

1. Bruce
2. Just One Look
3. Solitary One
4. Spanish Eyes
5. Everybody's Cheating
6. Looking For The One
7. Cold Feet
8. Brand New Feeling
9. Beautiful Feelings
10. Guenevere

 

Hard To Hold
[soundtrack]

(1984)

1. Love Somebody
2. Don't Walk Away
3. Bop Til You Drop
4. Taxi Dancing —performed by Randy Crawford—
5. S.F.O. [instrumental]
6. Stand Up
7. When The Lights Go Down —performed by Graham Parker—
8. The Great Lost Art Of Conversation
9. Heart Of A Woman —performed by Nona Hendryx—
10. I Go Swimming —performed by Peter Gabriel—

 

Tao

(1985)

1. Dance This World Away
2. Celebrate Youth
3. State Of The Heart
4. Written In Rock
5. The Power Of Love (The Tao Of Love)
6. Walking On The Edge
7. Walk Like A Man
8. The Tao Of Heaven
9. Stranger In The House
10. My Father's Chair

 

Rock Of Life

(1988)

1. Rock Of Life
2. Honeymoon In Beirut
3. World Start Turning
4. One Reason (To Believe)
5. Soul To Soul
6. Tear It All Down
7. Woman
8. Dream In Colour
9. Hold On To Your Dream
10. (If You Think You're) Groovy

 

Karma

(1999)

1. His Last Words
2. It's Always Something
3. Religion Of The Heart
4. Beautiful Prize
5. Karma
6. Shock To My System
7. Free
8. Prayer
9. The White Room
10. In Veronica's Head
11. Ordinary Girl
12. Act Of Fait

 

Shock/ Denial/ Anger/ Acceptance

(2004)

1. Perfect
2. I'll Make You Happy
3. Will I?
4. God Gave You To Everyone
5. Idontwantanythingfromyou
6. Jesus Saves
7. Beautiful You
8. Wasted
9. Shoot Your Guru
10. Alien Virus
11. Angels Of The Disappeared
12. Eden
13. The Invisible Girl
14. My Depression
15. Your Psychopathic Mother
16. Every Night I Wake Up Screaming
17. Open My Eyes

 

The Day After Yesterday

(2005)

1. I'm Not In Love
2. Under The Milky Way
3. Life In A Northern Town
4. Broken Wings
5. Human
6. Holding Onto Yesterday
7. Baker Street
8. Waiting For A Girl Like You
9. Let's Go Out Tonight
10. For No One
11. Miss You Nights
12. Blue Rose
13. Cry
14. Imagine

 

Venus In Overdrive

(2008)

1. What's Victoria's Secret?
2. I'll Miss That Someday
3. Venus In Overdrive
4. One Passenger
5. Oblivious
6. 3 Warning Shots
7. Time Stand Still
8. God Blinked (Swing It Sister)
9. Mr. PC
10. She
11. Nothing Is Ever Lost
12. Saint Sahara

 

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