Todd Rungren

Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Todd Harry Rundgren
Born	(1948-06-22) June 22, 1948 (age 68) Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Art rock progressive rock progressive pop soul electronic
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter record producer music video director recording engineer
Instruments	Vocals guitar bass keyboards
Years active	1966–present
Labels	Ampex Bearsville Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Woody's Truck Stop Nazz Utopia The New Cars Meat Loaf Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Edgar Winter Mark Klingman Daryl Hall Hello People The Tubes Grand Funk Railroad The Band Badfinger The Psychedelic Furs

Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. Hailed in the early stages of his career for both his own material and for his production of other artists, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, his career has produced a diverse and eclectic range of recordings often both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia. Rundgren has often been at the forefront as a promoter of cutting edge recording technologies.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Rundgren engineered and/or produced many notable albums for other acts, including the Band's Stage Fright (1970), Badfinger's Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band (1973), the New York Dolls's New York Dolls (1973), Hall & Oates's War Babies (1974), Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (1977), and XTC's Skylarking (1986). In the 1980s and 1990s, his interest in video and computers led to his "Time Heals" (1981) being the eighth video played on MTV, and "Change Myself" (1991) was animated by Rundgren on commercially available Amiga computers.