Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren

Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.^[1] Two of his best-known songs are "I Saw The Light" and "Hello It's Me". Both were on his 1971 album Something/Anything?. Most of the songs on that album were performed by Rundgren alone, using multitrack recorders and playing many musical instruments.

Apple Records hired Rundgren to produce an album, Straight Up, for the band Badfinger during 1971. Badfinger had not heard of Rundgren and did not know his music, until they bought copies of some of his records. They liked what they heard, and when Rundgren met the band, they got along well, and worked well together.

In the early 2000s, Rundgren replaced Ric Ocasek as bandleader of The Cars, when they reunited to tour.

Actress Liv Tyler used to believe that Rundgren was her father.^[2]

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Rundgren's hometown, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in 2007
One of Rundgren's first gigs as a producer was engineering and mixing for the Band (pictured in 1969)
Arcosanti Concert
Rundgren performing with Utopia in 1978
New York Dolls, whose 1973 debut album was produced by Rundgren
Utopia on their Ra tour at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in 1977. Rundgren is pictured on second-right.
1978 print ad for Rundgren's simulcast concert at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland
Rundgren and Tony Levin in Toronto, September 2006
Rundgren (right) at the Library of Congress in 2019
Throughout his live performances in the 1970s and 1980s, Rundgren often sported The Fool guitar originally owned by Eric Clapton and given to Rundgren by Jackie Lomax.^[3]