General Hospital alum Rick Springfield continues to do everything, including ring in the new year on ABC’s New Year’s Rockin Eve. Don’t miss his performance of an 80s classic that never gets old.
Key Takeaways
- Rick Springfield performed “Jessie’s Girl” on New Year’s Rockin Eve to ring in 2026.
- Springfield is known by long-time soap fans as Dr. Noah Drake on GH.
- GH fans flooded the comments with love for Springfield as the fictional doctor.
Springfield may be best known as a world famous rockstar, but before he exploded onto the music scene in the early 80s, he played the iconic Dr. Noah Drake on GH. The actor and musician appeared on the soap off and on from 1981-2013, playing a total of three different roles: Noah, Eli Love, and himself at the 2013 Nurses Ball during GH’s 50th anniversary.
It may be years since we’ve last seen Noah in Port Charles, but Springfield has never left our screens, most recently appearing on New Year’s Rockin Eve with a performance of his hit “Jessie’s Girl.”
Watch the performance below:
The comments were quickly flooded with fans who remembered him for his GH role. “Dr. Drake – General Hospital!!! College years…” one said, while another excitedly shared, “Omg!! This song was my first 45 record. I was a huge General Hospital fan, watched it every day and he was Dr. Noah Drake. Loved this song!! Played it over and over.”
“Well I have loved him since Dr. Noah Drake, but had no idea he is a tease!” said another watcher, while another simply responded, “Any Dr. Noah Drake fans out there??”
As for GH, Springfield is never too far from his soap fans. He recently paid tribute to the late Anthony Geary (Luke), and honored the late Jackie Zeman (Bobbie) during GH’s 60th anniversary primetime special in 2024.
In fact, Springfield told ABC’s On the Red Carpet during rehearsals for the show that performing on Rockin’ Eve was “one of the first things I did when ‘Jessie’s Girl’ first broke,” referring to his #1 hit from 1981.
“So this is great. I’m very excited about it,” he added. “You know, when I saw it come in I said, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do this.””
With the year coming to a close, a lot of people probably already have their New Year’s resolutions in mind, but Springfield says he isn’t one of them.
“I’m a very goal-oriented person, and I don’t wait for New Year’s to make goals,” he said. “It’s kind of a cop-out.”
“I mean, I get it. It’s a good kind of point for someone to start, if they’re having a hard time starting,” he noted. “But I don’t really make the resolutions on the New Year’s thing. I just go for it all the time.”
As for what Springfield has planned for 2026, he joked that he’ll be “sleeping a lot” and also plans to visit his granddaughter a lot. There’s also plenty of music in store.
“I have a record coming out with a band I have called The Locusts that’s a double album coming out,” he said, “and I’ll also be recording a new album that I’m really excited about it.”