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Rick Springfield: Rick Rules This Town

Todd Everett, Trouser Press, December 1981

IF THE Saturday night crowd at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is any indication of who buys his records, Rick Springfield has at last conquered a problem that's been plaguing him for nearly a decade: how to be a teen idol and a successful working musician.

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