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On The Horizon
Rick Springfield - A 'Comic Book Hero' No More

by Hugo Slafia

When Rick Springfield first hit the shores of America just about a year ago, he was hailed as the darling of the pre-teen set and quickly dismissed by most rock critics as a "teenybopper-oriented" star. Today, Rick is still a favorite of the younger set, with a weekly ABC-TV cartoon show to prove it. But with the release of his second LP, Comic Book Heroes (Columbia), a few of last year's stand-offish critics are beginning to take a closer look at the multi-talented Rick. As well as writing the words and music to all of the disc's songs, Rick also plays all guitars, piano, moog and Hammond organ on the recording.

(later on the article says):"There's only one thing I'd like to see happen in my career," he says with a slightly embarrassed laugh. "I'd like to be able to look at an ad for a Rick Springfield concert and see the words SOLD OUT written across it." (for the complete article go here)

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Although Rick has had many SOLD OUT shows since this article was written, we thought it was quite appropriate that Rick is playing a sold out show in Nashville Tonight (see ad below)