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Richard Lewis Springthorpe (born 23 August 1949), known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian-American musician 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 ", which reached the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972.
Venus in Overdrive is the 16th studio album by rock musician Rick Springfield. According to an interview that Springfield gave to the website Songfacts, the title track was written about his wife, Barbara Porter, whom he married in 1984. The album spent two weeks on Billboard's album chart. [2]
According to Springfield, the lyrics of "What Kind of Fool Am I" are about his then-girlfriend Barbara Porter, who he married in 1984. [2] Billboard described the song as starting "as a ballad but kicks in soon enough to the punchy power pop" that had generated previous hits for Springfield. [ 3 ]
Along with his dessert of choice, Springfield — who has been married to his wife Barbara Porter for 40 years — will celebrate his birthday onstage. He and Richard Marx have a tour stop in ...
Rick Springfield is paying tribute to his longtime friend, Olivia Newton-John. The 72-year-old Australian-born singer gets emotional as he recalls their enduring friendship as both stars who ...
Rick Springfield is a perfect example of how some people age differently. At 75, he has the stamina to run around the concert stage, often performing shirtless in front of his adoring fans.
She appeared in the 2011 Rick Springfield documentary Affair of the Heart, [36] and was a panelist in a 2011 episode of The Joy Behar Show. In late 2011, Blair appeared at the taped Governors Awards for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring makeup artist Dick Smith, who had created the iconic makeup for Blair in The Exorcist. [37]
The music was based on an earlier Springfield song titled "Spanish Eyes", and released on the Sound City recordings from 1978. The song lyrics were changed and were written to Springfield's then-girlfriend Barbara Porter (later his wife), whom he was worried was involved with other people while they were apart.