Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo career with his debut single "Speak to the Sky". I. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". His two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet.

Springfield has released seventeen studio albums, six compilation albums, two live albums, thirty-four singles and eleven music videos. Springfield released his debut solo single, "Speak to the Sky" in October 1971 and after recording his first album, Beginnings in London, Springfield moved to the United States in mid-1972.

In 1973, Springfield released his second album, Comic Book Heroes, followed by, in 1974, an Australia-only album, Mission: Magic! and his single, "Take a Hand" from the album Wait for Night.

In 1981 released his next album, Working Class Dog, which featured the single, "Jessie's Girl". Springfield won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance The album reached No.7 on the Billboard 200. His follow-up albums were Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet in 1982 and Living in Oz in 1983.

In 1984, Springfield released the album Beautiful Feelings and starred in his own movie Hard to Hold which he recorded the majority of the material on the accompanying soundtrack including "Love Somebody".

Springfield released his next album Tao in 1985 which featured "State of the Heart" and "Celebrate Youth". That same year, Springfield was one of several performers who participated in the Live Aid charity concert.