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including  Don’t Talk to Strangers, Affair of the Heart, I’ve Done Everything
for You, Love Somebody, and Human
Touch, Springfield has remained a force
in the music industry and a successful
touring musician able to still sell out
venues throughout the country. Currently, Springfield is busy with his Stripped
Down tour, which has the singer/songwriter taking the precious time to reflect
on the music that has made him famous.
“After I finished with my autobiography,
I realized that I had a lot of stories,”
Springfield says. “A lot of those stories
did come out in my songs in one way or
another. We thought doing a ‘stripped
down, storytelling thing’ would be a
good idea. But yes, I am nervous up
there. It’s just me. You can’t really fall
back on sounds and lights and the other
band members. It’s a much more intimate setting than what I am used to.”
And while thousands of adoring fans
still come out to his concerts for the music, many continue to relate to Springfield as the dashing Dr. Noah Drake on
the long-running soap opera General
Hospital. “I only took the job because
I had no money,” laughs Springfield,
who took the role back in March of
1981 and made recurring appearances on the soap through 2013. “I really
thought that the role would have no effect on my music. As far as I was concerned, it was just a bunch of blue hair
ladies ironing in the afternoon and killing time watching soap operas. I didn’t
realize where it would go and what it
would mean and that people would still
be calling me Noah Drake 30 years
later. It’s been a double edged sword.”
Yet, the sheer art of acting is something
that still intrigues Springfield to this day.
“Acting has always been more about
expression rather than hiding,” says
Springfield, who has also landed roles
on shows such as Californication and
Hawaii 5-0. “I mean obviously you can
say and do anything as a character. It
goes back to what we did as a kid playing cops and robbers. It’s really the love
of acting as much as the love of role
playing and being able to do and say
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