How I Wrote… “Jessie’s Girl”
May 03, 2022
3 minutes
BY JOE BOSSO
have any idea it would be a hit, let alone a song that has endured for decades,” singer and guitarist Rick Springfield says about “Jessie’s Girl,” the pop-rock ear-candy smash from his 1981 album, , that propelled him to international stardom. “When I wrote it, I thought it was a good album song, that was about it. When radio stations started playing it and it became this giant hit, I was as amazed as anybody.”
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