Biography
Who is Rick Springfield?
Early life and real name
Rick Springfield was born as Richard Lewis Springthorpe on August 23, 1949. He was born in Guildford, which is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. His father was Norman James Springthorpe, a career officer in the Australian Army. His mother was named Eileen Louise Evennett.
Rick lived at an army camp in Broadmeadows, Victoria, when he was young. He attended Ashwood High School in Melbourne during the 1960s. He also went to Merrylands High School and Mckinnon Secondary College. At age 14, he watched the Beatles play at Festival Hall in Melbourne.
Music career and hits
Rick learned guitar at age 13. He played in bands in England from 1958 to 1963 while his father was stationed there. He joined Rockhouse in 1968, and the group later became MPD Ltd. In October 1968, the band played for troops in South Vietnam during the war. Rick once dropped a mortar shell that killed a Viet Cong soldier.
He later joined the pop rock group Zoot in 1969 as a singer and guitarist. The band wore pink satin clothes to get attention. Zoot had a hit with a cover of Eleanor Rigby in 1971. He wrote the Zoot songs Hey Pinky and Freak. He started his solo career that same year with the song Speak to the Sky.
Acting roles and television
Rick began acting in 1977 on The Six Million Dollar Man. He appeared in episodes of Wonder Woman and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. He played Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital from 1981 to 1983. He returned to the role from 2005 to 2008 and again in 2012 and 2013.
He starred in the 1984 movie Hard to Hold. From 1994 to 1997, he was in the series High Tide. Rick played a version of himself in the show Californication in 2009. He also had roles in True Detective and Ricki and the Flash in 2015. He appeared in Supernatural, Hot in Cleveland, and American Horror Story.
Recent work and achievements
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Rick wrote an autobiography called Late, Late at Night: A Memoir in 2010. In 2020, he performed on the song Jessie's Girl 2 with Coheed and Cambria.
Rick started a radio show on SiriusXM in 2021 called Working Class DJ with Rick Springfield. He also formed The Morris Springfield Project with Russell Morris. This group released the album Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz in October 2021. This record debuted at number 34 on the ARIA Charts.
Birthday and age
Rick Springfield was born on August 23, 1949, which makes Rick 77 years old today. That birthday falls under the Virgo sign. Rick shares the date with 61 other famous people.
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