Rick Springfield still rocks

’80s rock star and former soap-opera hottie Rick Springfield to heat up Silver Springs

By Anthony Violanti
Staff writer

Published: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 6:28 a.m.

Gone are the Tiger Beat covers, No. 1 singles and teenybopper fantasies.

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Eighties rock star and one-time soap-opera hunk Rick Springfield will perform with Eddie Money at the Silver Springs attraction on Saturday.

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Rick Springfield, the ’80s teen idol, is pushing 60.

The one-time soap-opera hunk who hit the top of the charts with “Jessie’s Girl” in 1981 may be nearing Social Security age, but one thing about him remains the same: Rick still rocks. He will play Silver Springs at 3 p.m. on Saturday with another ’80s rocker, Eddie Money.

Listen to Springfield’s latest album, “Venus In Overdrive,” and you realize that at 59, he’s not just another oldies act living in the past. Springfield offers a power-pop sound straight out of “Jessie’s Girl,” which can be heard on the first single, “What’s Victoria’s Secret.”

The album debuted at No. 28 in Billboard, making it Springfield’s biggest seller since 1991. One lyric from the CD might best sum up the man who played Dr. Noah Drake on “General Hospital,” but has changed in 2009:

“MTV and shopping malls tell me that I’m growing old,” he sings in “Time Stands Still.”

It’s a wistful look back, and the song “is basically about everything is moving so fast and the fact that things are changing. Just feeling uncomfortable and wanting it to be like it was,” Springfield said in a statement for the album.

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