Rick Springfield is recalling an experience from his teenage years that has stayed with him for nearly six decades.

During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Australian singer/songwriter, now 77, revisited the time he traveled to Vietnam at 17 to perform for U.S. troops. While staying at a Navy encampment near Da Nang in 1968, Springfield says the base came under attack and he ended up helping fire mortars from a defensive position.

At the time, Springfield said he was too young to fully understand the gravity of what was happening around him. The next day, he was told that one of the mortars that he had fired had killed a Viet Cong fighter.

Decades later, the memory is still difficult for him to process.

“I think it’s still there,” Springfield told Rogan, explaining that he struggles with the knowledge that he was involved in the death of another person, even though it happened during wartime and he had little understanding of what he was doing at the time. “It’s hard for me to face that I was responsible for the end of a life.”

Springfield also remembered the soldiers he encountered as being deeply conflicted about the war. Many, he said, questioned why they were in Vietnam and what they were doing there.

The experience is one Springfield also detailed in his 2010 memoir, Late, Late at Night. He wrote that despite the distance of time, the memory still “sends a shiver” down his spine.

The Vietnam trip came more than a decade before Springfield would become a household name. In 1981, he broke through with Working Class Dog, his fourth studio album, which spawned his signature hit “Jessie’s Girl.” The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in September 1981 and remains his lone No. 1 on the chart. That same year, he first played the role of Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital and he acted on the long-running soap opera through 2014.

Watch the full podcast with Springfield and Rogan below.

Bruce Springsteen is not backing down. He knew his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour wouldn’t be for everyone, and he was perfectly willing to accept that.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the rock icon opened up about the political message behind his recent Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, his decision to release the accompanying concert film in installments and why he has no regrets about the potential of receiving backlash or alienating fans over his views.

“I’m old now and I do what I want to do,” Springsteen told Rolling Stone. “This was the show I wanted to make, the story I wanted to tell.”

That philosophy was at the center of the 20-date U.S. run, which kicked off March 31 in Minneapolis and wrapped May 30 in Philadelphia. The tour followed Springsteen’s January release of “Streets in Minneapolis,” which was a protest song written in response to the death of Reneé Good and Alex Pretti during confrontation with federal immigration authorities.

The resulting shows leaned heavily into Springsteen’s politically charged catalog. The set included his classic hit “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Death to My Hometown,” “Long Walk Home” and “Youngstown,” while Edwin Starr‘s “War” opened the concert and Bob Dylan‘s “Chimes of Freedom” closed it. Springsteen also gave a speech criticizing the Trump administration before jamming right in to the music.

For Springsteen, the point wasn’t to persuade anyone. Instead, he said the tour somewhat allowed him to bring decades of music into conversation with the current political climate.

“It was the state of the nation for 2026,” he explained.

That also meant confronting the complicated history of “Born in the U.S.A.,” a song Springsteen said he had rarely performed in the U.S. in recent years because of the way its message has been misunderstood. Placed between “War” and “Death to My Hometown,” he felt the song could be re-contextualized for the moment.

And he knows that approach won’t please everyone.

When asked about the possibility of losing fans who support Donald Trump, Springsteen essentially shrugged. He said he has spent his career making the records and shows he wants to make, then finding the audience for them.

“I’m sure there were people, and I’ve read things where people were vehement about the content of the show,” he said. “And that’s just the way the chips fall.”

Springsteen also weighed in on upcoming midterm elections, saying he hopes Democrats can regain control of the House and Senate. He’ll make at least one more political-adjacent appearance before the midterms, joining Tom Morellos for a show in Washington, D.C. next month.

Meanwhile, Springsteen is bringing the Land of Hope and Dreams tour to screens. The first seven songs from the Philadelphia performance are already streaming on YouTube as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut), with the remaining concert set to come in additional installments.

As for what comes next musically for Springsteen, he says he has two albums in the works — including one completed record and another he hopes to finish and release first. He’s also open to more touring, although he doesn’t envision returning to the massive 140-show E Street Band runs of the past.

Watch the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut) below.

Music legend Dionne Warwick, actress Lynda Carter (star of TV’s Wonder Woman) and Nicola “Coco” Verses, founder of jewelry house VERSÉ, will be honored at the 2026 Angel Ball, the signature fundraiser of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. The ball, hosted by songwriter Denise Rich and her daughters Daniella Rich Kilstock and Ilona Rich Schachter, will be held on Monday, Oct. 19 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. 

The black-tie fête is held annually in memory of Denise’s daughter, Gabrielle Rich Aouad, who died at the age of 27 from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

Grammy-nominated singer Deborah Cox will emcee the event, which will feature a performance by two-time Grammy-winning reggae star Shaggy, along with special appearances by Star Jones, Dr. Stephen D. Nimer and more.

“Raising money for cancer research is more important than ever and we are thrilled to celebrate three outstanding honorees who continue to champion our cause,” Denise Rich said in a statement. “Since 1996, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation has funded over $47 million in research grants to the best and brightest early career cancer scientists whose research focuses on finding better treatments, preventions and cures for patients with leukemia, lymphoma and related blood cancers. Because of their support and dedication, we are truly saving lives.”

Warwick, 85, has had 12 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including a pair of No. 1 hits: “Then Came You,” a 1974 collaboration with The Spinners, and “That’s What Friends Are For,” a 1985 collab with Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. A five-time Grammy winner, Warwick has received several major career accolades in recent years – a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2019, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2023 and the award for musical excellence from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2024).

Since 1996, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation has funded over $47 million in research grants to cancer scientists whose research focuses on finding better treatments, preventions and cures for patients with leukemia, lymphoma and related blood cancers. For more information, visit their website.

Harry Styles has confirmed that 2027 dates for his Together, Together world tour are on the way.

In an emailed note to fans sent Wednesday night (Sept. 9), Styles thanked all the fans who have already joined him at dates in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo, Mexico City and his current residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “When we decided to do the 2026 tour I knew it would be special but what you turned it into was far beyond what I could have imagined,” he wrote.

He said he wanted his most loyal fans to be the first to know that 2027 dates are coming on Thursday — and that they will mark the “final cities” that Together, Together will hit.

“Tomorrow’s announcement will be the final cities of Together, Together,” he wrote. “After that, I don’t know what comes next for me, but I know that I’m excited to find out.”

Once Styles wraps up his current MSG residency on Halloween (Oct. 31), he’ll have two stops in Australia — six shows across Melbourne and Sydney — for 2026 before hitting the yet-undisclosed locations next year.

Find Styles’ full note to fans below:

Hello.

When we decided to do the 2026 tour I knew it would be special but what you turned it into was far beyond what I could have imagined. I love playing music, I love being with all of you and being a part of the love and joy you all create together every night. That’s why I wanted you to be the first to know we will be adding 2027 dates, which honestly, at first I found daunting. Being an artist is the only life I’ve ever known really, I have been doing this since I was 16 years old, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world to still be sharing these moments with you.

Tomorrow’s announcement will be the final cities of Together, Together. After that, I don’t know what comes next for me, but I know that I’m excited to find out.

I can’t wait for us to keep dancing with all our friends, I hope to see you there. Thank you for coming out to see us, and for all the love and support you’ve given me over the years.

All my love,

-H