Rick Springfield

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Australia

Active from

1949-08-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,121,143

Total plays

8,317,911

Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. A member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, he had an initial career as a charismatic 'teen idol'; he started his string of solo works with a debut single, called "Speak to the Sky", that reached the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the U.S., evolving into a more strident power pop sound as the years passed. He had a #1 hit with "Jessie's Girl

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions

   · 1992 · cited 14,898x

2. The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

   · 2008 · cited 10,756x

3. Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

   · 2021 · cited 9,950x

4. De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

   · 2013 · cited 7,881x

5. Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain

   · 2006 · cited 5,275x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Lewis

Gender

male

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

Sydney

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Participant in

Live Aid

Genre

rock music

Instrument

guitar

Official website

rickspringfield.com

Image

Rick Springfield-21 (54518280999).jpg

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