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MEMOIR: RICK SPRINGFIELD SAVED FROM SUICIDE BY MIRACLE

Fifteen years before his 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl" made him a household name, rocker Rick Springfield tried to commit suicide over his looks. He writes in his new memoir, "Late, Late at Night" (Simon & Schuster) that he tried to hang himself at age 17 when he felt "as ugly as the ass end of a female baboon at mating season."

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