A fantastic power pop song from 1981. Quite unexpectedly from a guitarist who used to be in Zoot a band I saw many many times when I was a kid. Our neighbour was Graeme Boyd a 3AK disc jockey and he would often take us along to these kinds of beach promotions in summer and at each one Zoot would play. They had a big hit at the time with Eleanor Rigby, a cover of the Beatles song that they had heavied up. It was my introduction to live bands and it was so bloody exciting. Rick Springfield was just amazing. He would do all these tricks with his guitar. Like throw it high in the air and catch it and keep on playing. He had this special strap where he could actually spin his guitar like a propeller. Mind-blowing stuff for a 14-year-old. It seemed a far cry from the band who had the logo "Think Pink Think Zoot" back when I was in form 1 at Croydon High School. Then they were so uncool. In 1971 they became cool. Then they broke up.
Rick had a few solo hits in Australia then went overseas. Then in 1981, I was watching Countdown on a Sunday night and Molly played the new Rick Springfield song. And from the cool New Wave start in it sounded like a hit. And it was. All over the world. And later at clubs like Barbarella's and Lizard Lounge it was always a good party starter. And it still sounds good.
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