From his 1970 take on Eleanor Rigby to his first U.S. hits to his '80s smashes, here are 42 songs that saw Rick rise from Aussie star to worldwide power-pop phenomenon. Those early hits ( Speak to the Sky; American Girls; Take a Hand ) give way to the anthemic #1 Jessie's Girl ; big '80s hits I've Done Everything for You; Don't Talk to Strangers; Affair of the Heart; Love Somebody; Bop 'Til You Drop; Souls; Love Is Alright Tonite; What Kind of Fool Am I; Don't Walk Away , and more!

Welcome to the Playlist series. Painstakingly compiled by the artists and the music nuts at Legacy Recordings, these collections truly represent an artists' complete body of work. We've fished through hundreds-thousands-of tracks to cherry pick the perfect playlists. Not just the hits (anyone can find those). The life changing cuts. The out-of-print tracks. The fan favorites everyone loves. The songs that make the artist who they are.

You’ll no doubt enjoy the sound of the beautifully remastered songs on this CD (as opposed to MP3's that contain less information, which translate into compromised sound). But we think the thing you'll appreciate most about this Playlist is that even though you didn't make it, you might wish you did.

Venus in Overdrive was recorded in a record 32 days by Springfield and Matt Bissonette, Springfield's long time bass player. According to Rick, "it is an album about love in all its forms, and since Venus is the goddess of love, it's called Venus in Overdrive. There is a lot of personal stuff in these songs but we have tried to craft them so they still have a universal voice. We are older, yet still teenagers, we have lost people we love and still love the people who are on our journey with us, we are angry at some of the crap in the world yet love our human failings."

The first single from Venus in Overdrive is "What's Victoria's Secret?" Rick says the title of the song "is one of those titles that was waiting to be written and we just got there first. Matt came up with it and we wrote the song while we were doing 5 nights of shows in Milwaukee. I had some recording gear brought into my hotel room and we wrote it there at the haunted Pfister hotel, room 804. It's basically about the sexualization of women and how we as males, want that, but also resist it and mainly need to connect to women as human beings. It's a dichotomy that most men feel I think."

Two songs on the record, "Saint Sahara" and "Oblivious," pay tribute to Sahara Aldridge, a young girl who frequently attended Rick's shows and whom the entire band came to love and who recently passed away. Rick explains that "Saint Sahara" "is about who Sahara was and how hard it was to have her leave. It's also a celebration and recognition of the people she affected in this world. Her mom said (before she died) that if I were to write a song about her daughter, could I make it a celebration and not something maudlin, so it's basically a song celebrating her great sprit. `Oblivious,' is the soul side of the song, `Saint Sahara,' what we all felt and how we dealt with it. It is sometimes so good to be numb to pain but life can't go on if you stay numb all the time. The song itself is about the denial of the finality of death, but it's still a love song."

As part of the promotional plan for the new album, Rick will be returning to "General Hospital" in July as Dr. Noah Drake and his alter ego rocker Eli Love. The storyline will reunite him with the characters of Robin, Patrick and Anna as well as allow him to perform the single, "What's Victoria's Secret?"

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First time on CD for this 1976 album from the Rock/Pop artist and teen idol. Originally released on Chelsea Records, it hit the Billboard charts when re-released on RCA Records in 1982. Rick is well known for his role of Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital. Wounded Bird.

2010 release, a collection of newly mastered previously unreleased demos from Grammy-Award winner Rick Springfield and veteran producer/engineer/songwriter (and lead guitarist from Springfield's touring band) Jeff Silverman. From The Vault consists of 13 tracks, originally recorded between 1986 and 1999, that have been digitally remastered by Silverman, giving the audience an entirely new listening experience. Many of the tracks are previously unreleased, others were later recorded for Springfield's albums but have never been heard in these versions! Frontiers.

Ori release '99 , His first one after almost 10 years of silence. & produced by long term collaborator, Bill Drescher. Considered as a " Thinking Man's AOR Album ".