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Runt the Magic Rabbit: Todd Rundgren's Search for the Ultimate Riff

Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 13 April 1972

WORD HAS filtered down to Allen Klein's New York office that George Harrison wants to get in touch with Todd Rundgren, the all-around rock and roll whiz kid. One can almost see George's piercing Piscean eye-beams glowering like searchlights across the vast Atlantic... S.O.S... Badfinger needs a producer... Todd, whose recent credentials include two solo albums and a third in the works; producer of the Band's Stage Fright and the Jesse Winchester album; producer of albums for Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, the American Dream. Where is he?

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