These rock songs from the 1980s are so good that modern-day songwriters still study them. And listeners still love them, too.

Quick, name Rick Springfield’s first Top 40 hit. Dollars to donuts, you quickly replied “Jessie’s Girl”, the 1981 hit that rocketed him to stardom and helped define the sound of the early 80s pop ...

'80s Singer Rick Springfield Reveals the True Inspiration Behind Hit Song 'Jessie's Girl' originally appeared on Parade. More than four decades after “Jessie’s Girl” first hit the airwaves and became ...

WHO IS HE: The career path of Rick Springfield is an interesting one. The Australian-born singer got his start in the late 1960s, achieving a moderate degree of success as both a solo artist and as a ...

The summer of 1981 was something else: General Hospital was pulling in 14 million viewers a day, a song called “Jessie’s Girl ...