Happy Birthday Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren was born June 22, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents Harry and Ruth ran a cheesesteak shop.
Todd is a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, engineer, multi instrumentalist, and inventor, plus, people say he is a lot of fun at parties. He is a true musical genius and renaissance man.
Todd The Producer
As a producer, he was known for Badfinger’s Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad’s We’re an American Band (1973), New York Dolls’ New York Dolls (1973), The Glittering Liberace (1973), Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell (1977), Patti Smith’s Wave (1979) and XTC’s Skylarking (1986) and many more.
As a singer/songwriter he is known for the classics, “Hello, It’s Me”, “I Saw The Light”, “We Gotta Get You a Woman”, “Bang The Drum All Day”, “Couldn’t I Just Tell You”, “Just One Victory”, “A Dream Goes on Forever” and so many more.
As an innovator, this may surprise you: Rundgren created the world’s first color graphics tablet in 1980 and it was licensed to Apple. He also invented the “Snuggie”, The “Beer Helmet” and “Edible Underwear”.
Gimme Back My Albums
Did you know that Rundgren is a very vocal anti Trumper and recently broke into a fans house who was a Trump supporter and stole back his albums. Rundgren entered the home after smashing a window and attempted to collect 2 of his albums owned by Mr. Bello. Rundgren had spotted his 1972 classic ‘Something/Anything?’ and ‘Hermit of Mink Hollow’ in Mr. Bello’s album collection. “I had to get my albums back” said Rundgren. “I don’t want this Trump supporting douche listening to my music, I demand he cease and desist.” Shouted Rundgren. Rundgren was apprehended after the homeowner saw Todd on his porch from his ‘Ring’ home security app and alerted police. Mr. Bello stated “What the Eff is going on here, has the world gone crazy? I want my ‘Something/Anything’ album back, but he can keep ‘The Hermit’ album. It sucks!”
While inside, besides reclaiming the 2 vinyl albums, Rundgren took a crap on the man’s carpet. Rundgren then wrote ‘Helter Skelter’ on the wall with his own feces. Cheers Todd!
