Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield at the Avalon Ballroom, has tremendous energy for a 65 year old Australian, and had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US, for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. 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 (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005 to 2008 and 2012, returning in 2013 for the show's 50th anniversary with son and actor Liam Springthorpe. In 2010, Springfield published his autobiography, Late, Late at Night: A Memoir. Other films include Hard to Hold, Legion, Nick Knight, Californication, tv series High Tide, has appeared at MGM Las Vegas, and was in the original Broadway cast of Smokey Joe's Cafe, and will appear in an upcoming film with Meryl Streep.