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Todd Rundgren: The Venue, London

Richard Cook, NME, 5 June 1982

EVERYTHING YOU remember about rock music is secreted somewhere on some Todd Rundgren record. The synthetic flash, the bullet-browed machismo, the candywisp sentimentality, the filibuster's comicbook, the path to the altar and the (feigned) descent into the inferno.

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