Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything? (Bearsville)
Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1972
THE NAME TODD Rundgren has passed across so many lips in the past few months that you can almost detect traces of chapstick around its edges. It has always been relatively easy to find praise for his name in conjunction with someone else's (Paul Butterfield, the Band, Badfinger, etc.) but it seems that the time has come when the man must finally be met on his own terms. Something/Anything? will see to that.
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