During the performance in Las Vegas in 2000. Rick Springfield He fell from a height of 7 meters and hit the head several times. At that time, the musician thought he had broken his wrist.
In an interview with the magazine “People” Australian-American musician and actor, he revealed that he decided to study the whole body with magnetic resonance imaging. He was surprised when it turned out that he suffered a brain injury 25 years ago.
After 25 years, Rick Springfield learned about brain injury
“At that time I thought: ‘I just broke my wrist’ “Jessie’s Girl”. This song reached the top of the charts, including in the USA and Australia.
Currently, 75-year-old Rick Springfield admitted that the motivation to perform detailed tests was the death of his father, who in fear of the diagnosis refused to study.
“For years he thought that he had stomach cancer and he refused to research fear of diagnosis. When he fainted at home one day, it turned out that it was a ulcer that he broke. He died because of him, although it could be avoided if he were treated” – he noted.
Rick Springfield outside “Jessie’s Girl” still has four songs from the TOP 10 American list: “I’ve Done Everything for You”, “Don’t Talk to Strangers”, “Affair of the Heart” and “Love somebody”. Four albums from the first half of the 1980s in the US gained the status of platinum.
As an actor, he played, among others in series “Battlestar Galactica”, “City Hospital”, “Detective” and “American Horror Story: Kult”.