"With a career spanning nearly four decades, Todd Rundgren has done virtually everything. And everything virtually. As an accomplished producer, Rundgren's masterminded best-selling albums for Meat Loaf (Bat Out of Hell), XTC (Skylarking), and The Tubes (Remote Control), among many others. As an accomplished musician, he's mastered any number of instruments, including the drums, the guitar, the keyboard, and the progenitor of the synthesizer, the Theremin. And as a songwriter and performer, Rundgren's composed soundtracks (Pee Wee's Playhouse and Crime Story) and has released several solo albums, including the aptly-named A Capella, a full-length pop album created solely by overdubbing, sampling, and mixing Rundgren's own voice.
"Not content to tinker only with music, Rundgren's also tinkered, quite successfully, with technology. Long fascinated with video, Rundgren opened Utopia Video Studios, a multi-million-dollar, state-of-the-art facility in 1979. His first project? SelectaVision's Gustav Holst's "The Planets," commissioned by RCA as the first demo for their new videodisc format.
