A Wizard a True Star: Todd Rundgren in the studio

If you know what you want Ill get it for you. If you dont know what you want Ill do it for you. Few record producers possess the musical facility to back up such a bold promise but in over forty-plus years behind the glass Todd Rundgren has willed himself into becoming a not only a rock guitar virtuoso an accomplished lead vocalist and vocal arranger and visionary keyboard player not to mention a serviceable drummer. But Rundgrens greatest instrument of all is the recording studio itself. After learning his craft with Nazz Rundgren engineered The Bands Stage Fright album and soon became the producer of a string of noteworthy albums for Sparks Grand Funk The New York Dolls Badfinger Hall & Oates Meat Loaf Patti Smith Group Cheap Trick The Psychedelic Furs and XTC. Meanwhile Rundgren played almost every instrument on his solo albums such as Something/Anything? A Wizard A True Star and Hermit Of Mink Hollow while collaborating on a series of albums by his band Utopia. A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio is a fascinating and authoritative trip through the land of flickering red lights inhabited by a studio wizard and true star who has rarely enjoyed a proper victory lap along the many trails that he has blazed. Researched and written with the participation and cooperation of Rundgren himself Myers also draws upon exclusive new interviews with Robbie Robertson Patti Smith XTC Sparks Daryl Hall and John Oates Meat Loaf Jim Steinman Cheap Trick Grand Funk The Psychedelic Furs The Tubes Steve Hillage all members of Rundgrens legendary band Utopia and many other key Rundgren associates.