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Utopia in Woodstock: Todd Rundgren

Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982

IF I AM THE LAST writer about pop music of any standing, Alfred G. Aronowitz was the first. He was matchmaking, twitching and joking from the '50s through to the '70s: spotting the connections, playing games with the names, playing tag with the cheats, inventing his own truth and reason, setting the whole thing up for its punchline.

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