I Saw The Light was the opening track and the first single from Todd Rundgren’s 1972 double album Something/Anything. The song went to No. 16 on the US chart and No.36 in the UK. It’s another example of Rundgren’s slick skills, his musical ear and his understanding of the essence of a meaningful Pop song. Perhaps […]
Once you have started listening to Todd Rundgren, it ‘s hard to move on to Something/Anything else, so I thought another one of his most popular songs wouldn’t go amiss. Can We Still Be Friends is the second track on his 1978 album Hermit Of Mink Hollow and became a hit in the US reaching […]
When you come from another planet you simply have to do everything yourself. You have to play the bass, the guitar, the keys, the sax, the drums, you have to sing it, produce it, engineer it, mix it, edit it, cut it, you have to write it, promote it and you have to do your […]
One of the things I love about Badfinger (apart from everything) is that however catchy and tuneful they were, they were also gutsy and you can hear that in their song Baby Blue (produced by Todd Rundgren). Baby Blue written by Pete Ham is on the classic album Straight Up released in late i971. Interestingly in […]
When Skylarking was released in 1986, I must have been in America because I remember having it on pre-recorded cassette. These little convenient plastic boxes of sound were extremely popular there – more popular than anywhere else I’d been. It was something to do with the car culture, everyone had a car, everyone had a […]