My Mummy has passed away. Dec 21st, 2016. She died while bringing in her washing from the clothes line. Sat on her walker and passed facing the blue spruce that my Dad planted in the backyard. Please send any money in lieu of flowers etc to: http://www.lindablairworldheart.org/donate/
My mum loved her rescued dogs.
XOXO Rick

In Celebration Of Ruben Velasco: Guitar Tech Extraordinaire, Friend and The Real Cat Guy

In keeping with Ruben’s wishes prior to losing his hard fought battle with cancer earlier this year, the net proceeds raised from the “Rick Springfield Honorary Guitar Tech For A Day” during the Summer 2016 tour have been dispersed to the Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary in accordance with Ruben’s love for his animals. The funds have been applied to assist the Los Angeles-based animal sanctuary (which resides in a Level-4 fire zone) in the purchase a renovated 27 ft. mobile RV to empower the staff in their care for the animals. The “RV-RV” will be used for the sanctuary’s adoption, emergency evacuation and education programs as well as a spay/neuter program in Ruben’s name. The “RV-RV” will be custom wrapped with the artwork created by Britney Farina and will include images of Ruben’s beloved cats (Goo, Boo & Mew) and will include the messaging “In Celebration Of The Real Cat Guy: Ruben Velasco” on the back of the vehicle.

Breakdown of funds raised and applied:
$47,000 in donations were collected from Rick’s generous fans
-$9,400 Cost of marketing via “If Only”, overhead etc.
-$2,024 Cost of guitars, caps and laminated passes provided to donors
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= $35,576.00 Total funds donated to the Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary

A warm and sincere THANK YOU to all of Rick’s amazing fans who contributed in this project to honor Ruben in a unique way and help the cats and animals he loved so much. You guys are amazing!

Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary Web Site
Fur & Feather Animal Sanctuary on Facebook

Rick Springfield Honorary Guitar Techs For A Day and generous donors to the Rock For Ruben Campaign:

Rick was featured the Sunday edition of the New York Times on August 2 in an article titled “And Then Rick Springfield Walked In” about how he came upon winning the role opposite Meryl Streep in the move “Ricki and The Flash.”

Check out an excerpt and a link to the full article below:

By ROBERT ITO JULY 31, 2015 / NEW YORK TIMES
MALIBU, CALIF. — Jonathan Demme was looking for an actor who could hold his own against Meryl Streep and also play a mean lead guitar. All the music scenes in his new film, “Ricki and the Flash,” would be recorded live, no overdubs, so the guy had to have some chops. The call went out. Because of Ms. Streep’s involvement, just about every actor who had ever noodled around on guitar came out, along with just about every guitarist with a SAG card. Several actors — about half, by Mr. Demme’s estimation — ultimately confessed they couldn’t actually play. A lot of the professional guitarists couldn’t act. And then Rick Springfield walked in.

Yes, that Rick Springfield. If one hears that phrase a lot, it’s probably because this actor-musician has taken on so many varied and unexpected gigs since breaking out in the ’80s with hits like “Jessie’s Girl” and “Don’t Talk to Strangers.” He still records and tours. But he’s also played an unsavory version of himself on the Showtime series “Californication” and performed on Broadway in the musical revue “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.” Perhaps his best known role was Dr. Noah Drake on “General Hospital,” but he recently played a very different sort of caregiver, Dr. Irving Pitlor, the creepy, fake-tanned psychiatrist in HBO’s “True Detective.” He has even written a best-selling novel about a guy who finds God’s telephone number in a stolen self-help book (“Magnificent Vibration”) and has penned an autobiography that made Rolling Stone’s list of 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time. “I got better reviews for my novel and my autobiography than I ever got for my music,” he said.

Read the entire article here.