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Just in time for the '80s, longtime musician Rick Springfield emerged as a matinee idol both on daytime TV and on the pop charts. Following a stint as Dr. Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital, Aussie Springfield hit it big with his 1981 album, Working Class Dog.
Rick Springfield Profile
Just in time for the '80s, longtime musician Rick Springfield emerged as a matinee idol both on daytime TV and on the pop charts. Following a stint as Dr. Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital, Aussie Springfield hit it big with his 1981 album, Working Class Dog.
Top 7 Rick Springfield Songs of the '80s
Though often unfairly labeled as a teenybopper’s fantasy lacking in artistic substance, Rick Springfield was actually one of the '80s finest practitioners of mainstream rock, striking a singular marriage between a power pop obsession with melody and a rebel rocker’s penchant for guitar riffs.
The Best of Rick Springfield Album Review
While this collection may not qualify as quintessential, it certainly does a good job of featuring this artist's best work and demonstrating why Springfield is worth remembering. As a songwriter, the former soap star and heartthrob has far more to offer than most gave him credit for at the time.

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