BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Back in October, Wind Creek Event Center announced a show, set for March 15, featuring top music acts from the 1990s.
Now the event center has announced a show of top acts from a decade earlier.
I Want My 80s Tour, featuring 1980s chart-toppers Rick Springfield, John Waite, Wang Chung and Paul Young, will perform at the event center at 8 p.m. July 13.
Tickets, at $59.50 to $129.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14 at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.www.windcreekeventcenter.com
Tickets, at $59.50 to $129.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14 at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
The event center said the show will offer "full sets from each artist."
Springfield, 75, is best known for his hits “Jessie’s Girl,” “I’ve Done Everything for You” and “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” which were among more than a half-dozen Top 20 hit songs he had in the '80s. Springfield also had five gold and platinum albums.
He started as an Australian pop star who first had a hit in 1972 with “Speak to the Sky," but he really became popular playing Dr. Noah Drake on the television soap opera “General Hospital” in 1981.
He parlayed that role into the gold No. 1 hit “Jessie’s Girl,” for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
He followed with four more top 10 hits, including "Don't Talk to Strangers" and “Affair of the Heart,” both of which also were nominated for Grammy Awards, and “Love Somebody.”
The albums with those hits, “Working Class Dog” as well as follow-ups “Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet,” “Living in Oz” and “Hard to Hold” — all sold platinum.
Springfield's last charting album was 2016's "Rocket Science," which peaked at No. 69. He has released four discs since, with his most recent being "Automatic" in 2023.
Springfield has played the area frequently in recent years. He was at Wind Creek in 2024, 2022, and, when the venue was called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2017, 2016 and 2015.
Waite, Young and Wang Chung
Waite in the 1970s had hits with the pop-rock group The Babys, then in the 1980s also had hits as a solo artist and as a member of the supergroup Bad English.
Waite has had hits in several incarnations. He was lead singer and bassist of The Babys, who had the Top 10 hits “Isn’t It Time” in 1977 and “Everytime I Think Of You” in 1979. As a solo artist, he had the 1984 hit “Missing You.”
And with Bad English he had the 1989 No. 1 gold song “When I See You Smile.”
Waite also performed at Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest in Bethlehem in 2012 and 2019.
Briton Young, 69, first had chart success in the United States in 1983 with the hit "Come Back and Stay," which peaked at No. 22.
His biggest hit was 1985's chart-topping gold record "Every Time You Go Away," followed by the Top 15 "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" the same year.
He had another Top 10 hit, "Oh Girl" in 1990, and his final U.S. hit, a remake of the hit "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" in 1992, which peaked at No. 22.
English new wave band Wang Chung is best known for its U.S. Top 10 hit "Dance Hall Days" in 1984 and "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in 1986.
Its 1986 album "Mosiac" went gold. Its most recent album was "Orchesography" in 2019.
