Los Angeles, February 11, 2025 — Grammy award-winning musician, actor and New York Times best-selling author Rick Springfield will hit the road this summer on the 2025 edition of his “I Want My 80’s Tour”. The tour will also include special guests John Waite, Wang Chung, and Paul Young. The tour will visit 42 American cities and feature such enduring hits as “Jessie’s Girl,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “Missing You,” “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” “Every Time You Go Away,” and many more of the most iconic songs of the 1980s. This special tour is sure to delight music fans with what is regularly described as the greatest decade in pop and rock music.
Says Springfield about the tour, “The ‘I want my 80s’ tour is back with a bang. On stage with me will be my good friends John Waite and Paul Young. Wang Chung, who aren’t my good friends yet but I’m hoping they will be by the end of tour will be joining us as well. It’s going to be f**king awesome. Can I say f**king awesome? Maybe not. It’s going to be gosh, darn awesome.”
Tickets for the multi-city tour go on pre-sale Wednesday, February 12th. Tickets to the public go on sale February 14th. The tour begins May 28 in St. Petersburg, Florida and includes stops in Vienna, Virginia; Westbury, New York; Dallas, Texas; Oceanside, California and many more. Look for a special announcement on February 18 about a special Los Angeles area date.
On February 14th, Springfield’s already-announced “Big Hits: Rick Springfield’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2” package will be released. It’s Springfield’s latest career-spanning retrospective chronicling his more recent recording output from 1999’s “Karma” through his most recent album, 2023’s “Automatic.” It includes the new single “Lose Myself,” which is only available on this compilation. Springfield remarks on the package, “the GHV 2 is more a fan favorite songs album. The albums I have made in the past 20 years I think are the best work I’ve done musically.” “Lose Myself” is available now on all streaming services.
The deluxe version of the package, available thru TalkShopLive, will feature a single CD, double LP, a turntable mat, and includes a hardbound coffee table book, hand signed by Rick Springfield, with hundreds of photos taken of Rick by photographer Jay Gilbert over the past 20 years. Entitled, Burning Film: Rick Springfield Through the Lens, the book presents a comprehensive photographic documentation of Rick Springfield from 2005 to 2025, showcasing his dynamic stage performances and studio work through the camera lens.
Says Springfield about the book, “the coffee table book is a first for me. I don’t know why it’s on the coffee table. I actually don’t even have a coffee table. It sounds like it’s going to get cup marks and spills all over the pages. Let’s just leave coffee out of the equation. You’re welcome.”
The tour is being presented by SiriusXM’s 80s on 8 and sponsored by Beach Bar Rum. To watch the video for Lose Myself, click here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w2y6m42a0amy481g0g5cm/Lose- Myself.mp4?rlkey=gjrarsal52bz3vqlraoaxm5dz&st=txrcyyra&dl=0
Go to www.rickspringfield.com for all information. Tour dates and line-ups are listed below.
About Rick Springfield
Over the past four decades, Rick Springfield has worn many hats as an entertainer and performer. The creator of some of the finest power-pop of the 1980s, a Grammy winning singer, songwriter, and musician who has sold 25 million albums and scored 17 U.S. Top 40 hits, including “Jessie’s Girl,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “An Affair of the Heart,” “I’ve Done Everything for You,” “Love Somebody,” and “Human Touch.” He’s an accomplished actor who has starred opposite Meryl Streep in the feature film “Ricki and the Flash,” gave a chameleonic performance as the creepy Dr. Pitlor in HBO’s prestige drama “True Detective,” earned great reviews for his portrayals of Lucifer on the CW hit “Supernatural” and Pastor Charles on “American Horror Story.” In 2014, Springfield was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located around the corner from the first apartment he lived in when he first arrived in the U.S. from Australia in 1971. GHV2 will be Rick’s latest release. In 2023 he released “Automatic”.
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