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A terrific piece of very early Rick Springfield history, photographed with Sonny Bono and Cher during Springfield’s October 27, 1972 appearance on CBS’s The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Springfield performed “What Would the Children Think?” and was introduced as making his American network television debut; Sonny even presented the 23-year-old Australian singer with the show’s tongue-in-cheek “Bono Award.” Springfield had appeared on American Bandstand the previous month performing “Speak to the Sky,” but that Saturday daytime broadcast makes this Sonny & Cher appearance his first prime-time American network television appearance.
The photograph gets even better with the accompanying period Springfield decal: its wonderfully early-’70s stylized logo is the same emblem Springfield is wearing across his sweater in the photograph. The verso carries the stamp of Earl Miller Photography of Los Angeles. This is Springfield nearly nine years before “Jessie’s Girl” and Working Class Dog made him a major American pop star—caught at the very beginning of his U.S. television career, standing between two people who already knew a little something about pop stardom. More than fifty years later, Springfield remains an active touring performer, giving this wonderfully young image another layer of appeal.
Rick Springfield before “Jessie’s Girl,” before the ’80s superstardom—standing between Sonny & Cher on the night America met him in prime time.
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