OCTOBER 27, 1984 – Rick Springfield married Barbara Porter at his family’s church in Australia, and they are still together. They had met several years earlier when Springfield was recording “Working Class Dog” and she was working as the recording studio receptionist.“I’m a writer and she married a guy who writes about his life,” he explained. “All my songs are about my life and most of my hits are about her. Honestly. Starting with ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers.’”The have produced two sons, Liam (born 1985) and Joshua (born 1989)
