The Inauguration of Todd Rundgren
Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, March 1973
NOO YAWK, NU YORK — Beneath the red fluorescence of Max's Kansas City, where the boys wear lipstick and the girls have nails, Alice Cooper, Todd Rundgren and the jellybean rockers Hunt & Tony Sales (Soupy's offspring) watch the kids prove that everybody is a star.
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