Todd Rundgren is probably not alone in being spurred on by heartbreak to write his first-ever song. He may be standing among fewer artists via the fact that he recorded it twice, and perhaps fewer ...

Original live performance video edited and remastered with HQ studio sound. “Hello It’s Me” was the first song written by Todd Rundgren. Written in 1967 as a slow ballad about the break up of a ...

Despite it’s chart history, when Rundgren joined Ringo Starr with his All-Starr Band, he performed “Hello It’s Me” a few times but eventually retired it on their tours. “Originally, Ringo wanted me to ...

Most songwriters would like to forget the very first song they ever wrote, as such songs tend to be childish and clunky. Todd Rundgren, on the other hand, came out of the gate with an accomplished, ...

American musician Todd Rundgren has long been celebrated for his eccentric songwriting style—fusing pop, psych, prog, rock and R&B. Rundgren has released dozens of solo albums, and he produced records ...

Rundgren was still in his 20s when Bat Out of Hell was released, but he already had a decade’s worth of production under his ...

Todd Rundgren is, at heart, an individualist — a word he’s used to title both an album (1995’s “The Individualist,” released as TR-i) and a memoir consisting of 183 one-page chapters ("The ...

The news comes before dawn about the passing of B.B. King, making it next to impossible to keep focused on the actual subject of this week’s column. An internet search turns up random scraps of layers ...