Rick Springfield (quack)

In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.

RICK SPRINGFIELD
Musician, actor. Member of Zoot (1969-71). Established a solo career with debut single ‘Speak to the Sky’ reaching the top 10 in Australia in 1972. After moving to the USA, he had a No. 1 Australian and US hit ‘Jessie’s Girl’ (1981), for which he received a Grammy Award. Springfield recorded two U.S. top 10 albums, ‘Working Class Dog’ (1981), ‘Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet’ (1982).

Published: Springfield Reaches for the Sky. Go-Set, 30 October 1971 (p.5)