'80s Singer Rick Springfield Reveals the True Inspiration Behind Hit Song 'Jessie's Girl' originally appeared on Parade. More than four decades after “Jessie’s Girl” first hit the airwaves and became ...

Quick, name Rick Springfield’s first Top 40 hit. Dollars to donuts, you quickly replied “Jessie’s Girl”, the 1981 hit that rocketed him to stardom and helped define the sound of the early 80s pop ...

Buoyed by one of the biggest hits of the decade, Rick Springfield enjoyed an impressive run as one of the most consistent hitmakers in the first half of the 80s. And, like many of that era, the second ...

WHO IS HE: The career path of Rick Springfield is an interesting one. The Australian-born singer got his start in the late 1960s, achieving a moderate degree of success as both a solo artist and as a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the ...

The summer of 1981 was something else: General Hospital was pulling in 14 million viewers a day, a song called “Jessie’s Girl ...