Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield's acting and music careers ran parallel. In the 1970s, he released four modestly successful albums and made appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Wonder Woman and various other shows. In February 1981 he released his breakout album Working Class Dog (with "Jessie's Girl"), and a month later started appearing regularly on the soap opera General Hospital playing Dr. Noah Drake. He stayed on the show until 1983.

Springfield was born outside of Sydney, Australia, and split time growing up between Australia and England. He moved to the United States in 1972 when he was 22.

Springfield recorded four of his albums, including Working Class Dog, at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. During this time, he was managed by Joe Gottfried, the studio's co-owner. Sound City had a console that many who recorded there thought was enchanted, producing a sound that couldn't be duplicated anywhere. The studio fell on hard times in the digital age because it stayed stubbornly analog, but Dave Grohl, who recorded the Nevermind album there with Nirvana, made a documentary about it called Sound City that was released in 2013. Springfield is a big part of the film and was part of the "Sound City Players," a group of musicians with ties to the studio that played some concerts and made some TV appearances. Stevie Nicks and Paul McCartney were also Sound City Players.