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Todd Rundgren: With A Twist
Lydia Hutchinson | December 30, 2010
Todd Rundgren reached a crossroads on November 10, 1973, when his sentimental ballad, “Hello It’s Me” rose to number five on the Billboard singles chart. One way pointed to superstardom. The other to the shadowy land of cult status.
But for Todd, it wasn’t a matter of choosing. While Something/Anything, the double album that spawned “Hello It’s Me,” was catching on a year after its release, it was already a speck in Todd’s rearview mirror. He had followed his muses into new experimental territory, releasing the ambitious Wizard, A True Star, an eclectic tour-de-force on which the 25-year old wunderkind wrote, arranged, engineered, produced, and played every instrument. Though Something/Anything was chocked full of potential hits, Todd refused to backtrack. “No f—ing way am I releasing anything else off that album,” he told his label.
He did however concede to perform “Hello It’s Me” on Wolfman Jack’s TV show, TheMidnight Special, a move that sealed his commercial fate. Fans who were seei
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Todd Rundgren
American musician (born 1948)
Musical artist
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often unorthodox music, his occasionally lavish stage shows, and his later experiments with interactive art. He also produced music videos and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies, such as using the Internet as a means of music distribution in the late 1990s.[2]
A native of Philadelphia, Rundgren began his professional career in the mid-1960s, forming the psychedelic band Nazz in 1967. After two years, he left Nazz to pursue a solo career and immediately scored his first US top 40 hit with "We Gotta Get You a Woman" (1970). His best-known songs include "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light" from Something/Anything? (1972), which get frequent air time on classic rock radio stations, the 1978 "Can We Still Be Friends", and the 198
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About Todd Rundgren
A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren’s 1973 solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular music.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Rundgren began playing guitar as a teenager, going on to found and front The Nazz, the quintessential `60’s cult group. In 1969, he left the band to pursue a solo career, recording his debut offering, the legendary Runt. But it was 1972’s seminal Something/Anything?, on which he played all the instruments, sang all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that catapulted Todd into the superstar limelight, prompting the press to unanimously dub him ‘Rock’s New Wunderkind’. It was followed by such landmark LPs as The Hermit of Mink Hollow and the above mentioned A Wizard, A True Star, as well as such hit singles as I Saw The Light,
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