1- Todd Harry Rundgren was born on June 22, 1948, in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
2- In February 1974, he released his fifth album ‘Todd’, which was also his second double album
3- In 1992, he had the first commercially available music downloads via CompuServe.
4- At the age of 17, he formed his first band, called “Money”, with then-best friend and roommate Randy Reed and Reed’s younger brother
5- Rundgren composed scores for several comedy films and shows, including the show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and 1994’s Jim Carrey film Dumb and Dumber.
6- He produced and played lead guitar on Meat Loaf’s album Bat out of Hell from 1977, which became one of the most popular and bestselling albums of the 1970s.
7- In 1994 he won the award for Best Composition Arrangment for “No World Order” from the Interactive Academy.
8- He is Co-inventor of the Flowfazer, a computer program that generates visual effects.
9- Todd Rundgren is the greatest songwriter, musician, producer, soul to ever bring music to my world!
10- He attended Upper Darby High School and graduated in 1966
11- Todd was Born to Synthesize
12- Rundgren’s album No World Order (1994) was the 1st ever interactive album.
13- His creation of the first color graphics tablet in 1980 was licensed to Apple Computers and released as “The Utopia Graphics Tablet.”
14- In 1973, he formed the rock band called Todd Rundgren’s Utopia.
15- In 2003, ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine ranked ‘Something/Anything?’ at number 173 in their list of 500 greatest albums of all time
16- Todd and Frank z are actually quantum twins
17- He presented the first live nationally broadcast stereo radio concert (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country, in 1978.
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