[104][nb 5], The new wave-tinged The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1982) included a cover of the Small Faces' hit "Tin Soldier". Most of the album was recorded in the studio except "Utopia", the opening track, which was recorded live in concert in 1974. 7b to the wonderfully discordant three-note T-chord cluster. His experience with computer graphics dates back to 1981, when he developed one of the first computer paint programs, dubbed the Utopia Graphics System; it ran on an Apple II with Apple's digitizer tablet. [18] Michael Friedman, formerly the assistant of Nazz manager John Kurland, offered Rundgren a job as staff engineer and producer under Albert Grossman, which Rundgren accepted. 1973 - A Wizard, a True Star 1974 - Todd 1975 - Initiation 1976 - Faithful 1978 - Hermit of Mink Hollow 1978 - Back to the Bars (live) 1981 - Healing 1983 - The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect 1985 - A Cappella 1989 - Nearly Human 1991 - 2nd Wind 1993 - No World Order 1995 - The Individualist 1997 - With a Twist 1998 - Up Against It 2000 - One Long Year 2003 - Can't Stop Running (live box set) 2004 - Liars 2008 - Arena 2011 - Todd Rundgren's Johnson 2011 - (re)Production 2013 - State 2015 - Global 2015 - Runddans (collaboration with Emil Nikolaisen and Hans-Peter Lindstrm) 2017 - White Knight With Utopia: 1974 - Todd Rundgren's Utopia 1975 - Another Live 1976 (released 2001) - Disco Jets 1977 - Ra 1977 - Oops! I met her right after Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. [37] Members Ron and Russell Mael later credited Rundgren with launching Sparks' career. Wrong Planet (September 1977), recorded immediately after the tour,[90] signaled the start of a more pop-oriented direction for the group. Not long after completing Todd, Rundgren assembled Utopia, a prog rock group with no less than three synth players, plus guitar, bass and drums. Here we have two parallel root-fifth-root chords, F#5 and G5, both of which are played over an open-A root note to create a root-6-b7-based vamp. [64], A Wizard, a True Star was released in March 1973. 11d transposes Ex. [100] Later that year, Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman, an obsessive Rundgren fan who was incensed by Lennon's remarks on religion. [59][nb 3] His music tastes also started to lean toward the progressive rock of Frank Zappa, Yes, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. "[31], Released in mid-1970, Runt was not originally credited to Rundgren due to his anxieties about starting a full-fledged solo career, and instead bore the moniker "Runt". On the keyboard, this produces a tightly clustered doggie chord, named for the fact that TR uses neither middle finger when playing keyboards, giving his hand the shape of a four-legged animal. Website: http://www.tr-i.com/ Core discography: With Nazz: 1968 - Nazz 1969 - Nazz Nazz 1970 - Nazz III Solo: 1970 - Runt 1971 - Runt. [33] It was recorded with the 17-year-old bassist Tony Fox Sales and his 14-year-old brother Hunt Sales on drums. [62] Some of the other influences on the album included musical theater, jazz, and funk. [126] Biographer Paul Myers attributes the recording studio to be Rundgren's "ultimate instrument". Get the latest news, reviews and product advice straight to your inbox. Shortly after Liv's birth, Rundgren and Buell ended their romantic relationship, but Rundgren remained committed to Liv. Complex and compound suspensions loom large throughout the Rundgren catalog, and our final three examples bear this out. Rundgren referred to the project as "an opportunity for me to pay my bills, play to a larger audience, work with musicians I know and like, and ideally have some fun for a year. [53] His music video for the song "Time Heals" was among the first videos aired on MTV, and a video he produced for RCA, accompanied by Gustav Holst's The Planets, was used as a demo for their videodisc players. [42] The album was a hit and its two singles were similarly successful, although Rundgren was not credited for the first ("Day After Day") and thus did not receive production royalties for that single. He cited the song "The Verb 'To Love'" as the point in which he made the conscious decision to stop writing superficial love songs and "seek out all other kinds of subject matter to write about". Chords for Todd Rundgrens Utopia - The Seven Rays Chords for Todd Rundgrens Utopia - The Seven Rays 0:00 / 0:00 T ranspose : +0 share favorite Chords Notes album Simplified Major & minor chords only album Advanced info_outline Includes 6,7,aug,hdim7 chords lock_outline album Bass info_outline Advance chords for bass album Edited info_outline [80] In the article, he accused Lennon of striking a waitress at the Troubadour in Hollywood and called him a "fucking idiot" proselytizing revolution and "acting like an ass". [71] This time, he had also formed a fascination with religion and spirituality, reading books by authors such as Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Todd Harry Rundgren is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who is well-known for developing a diverse range of musical styles, inspired by pop-rock, hard rock, baroque pop, classic rock and roll, Broadway musicals, R&B, and many other genres. [86] The Lake Hill complex on Mink Hollow Road remained Rundgren's base for the next six years. A popular rumor is that Prince, before achieving fame, would attend Rundgren's concerts and attempt to meet him backstage. Now, graft any of the previous sets of voicings to either four-bar rhythm figure depicted in Examples 12 and 12b, and away you go! For much of the double-album Todd, Todd Rundgren was exploring weird instrumental avenues, creating a warped, synth-fueled variation of prog rock.This wasn't the culmination of the weirdness A Wizard, A True Star initiated -- it was merely the beginning. Bearsville soon became its own record imprint. A section/article that has been updated in the last 24 hours. 24.99 + 2.50 Postage. [45] For the first time in his career, Rundgren recorded every part by himself, including bass, drums, and vocals. [65] At Rundgren's behest, no singles were issued from the album, as he wanted the tracks to be heard in the context of the LP. Disc Jockey Geno Michellini of KLOS in Los Angeles used "Bang The Drum All Day" as an unofficial kick-off to the weekend on Friday afternoons. [103], Rundgren's Mink Hollow home was burglarized on August 13, 1980. [66] Its release coincided with the success of the "Hello It's Me" single, which gave Rundgren a reputation as a ballad singer, in marked contrast to the content on Wizard. [9] As a child, Rundgren was fascinated by his parents' small record collection, which consisted of show tunes and symphonic pieces, and especially by the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. [34] Nazz engineer James Lowe returned for the sessions and recalled that Rundgren seemed "more able to really lead a group. It marked Rundgren's first full-fledged venture into the progressive rock genre. [22] He elaborated: I know for a fact that her influences were the more sophisticated side of R&B, like Jerry Ragovoy and Mann & Weil and Carole King. Information on "Liars" plus more lies and the lyin' liars that tell them. So join me as we dive deep into TRs harmonic oeuvre and discover the alchemy that makes it tick. Although they gradually rebranded toward a rock-pop sound, Todd Rundgren's Utopia remained their highest album chart showing at number 34. As far as the OP is concerned, Rundgren is not your cup of tea, and that's fine. [83][84], Released in May 1976, Faithful saw Rundgren celebrating his tenth year as a professional musician. Todd Rundgren Utopia Another Life. In 2004, Rundgren released Liars, a concept album about "paucity of truth", that features a mixture of his older and newer sounds. Todd Rundgren's Utopia was this most mercurial of artists' first recorded foray with a band since his (late-60s) stint with The Nazz, but it was a long way from Anglophile power-pop and winsome balladry. Initially this was limited to marijuana. As the extended outro chorus progresses, the same chords are inverted up the fretboard, first to the ones shown in Ex. The music itself was quite a departure from Rundgren's previous work, with a dance/techno feel and much rapping by Rundgren. The album featured one side of original songs and one side of covers of significant songs from 1966, including the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago", the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations", and two Lennon-penned Beatles songs. The former album reached number two on the US charts, while the latter became a seminal forerunner of punk rock, although Rundgren never became known as a "punk producer". [75] On December 7, Rundgren appeared by himself on The Midnight Special performing "Hello It's Me" while dressed in jarringly flamboyant glam attire to the chagrin of some of his bandmates and Bearsville executive Paul Fishkin, who recalled that Rundgren looked "like a fucking drag queen".[73]. etc. 9a shows Badd4/A sandwiched between two different Amaj7 voicings, all embellished with open high E notes, la Love of the Common Man, from 1976s Faithful. Last edited on 27 February 2023, at 08:22, "allmusic ((( Todd Rundgren's Utopia > Review )))", "Todd Rundgren: Todd Rundgren's Utopia: Music Reviews: Rolling Stone", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todd_Rundgren%27s_Utopia_(album)&oldid=1141874369, Maruo Miyauchi design and illustration at Push Pin Studios, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 08:22. He is known for his sophisticated and often unorthodox music, his occasionally lavish stage shows, and his later experiments with interactive entertainment. [50] He is one of the first acts to be prominent both as an artist and as a producer. Can We Still Be Friends Cold Morning Light Couldn't I Just Tell You Hello , It's Me If I Have To Be Alone International Feel Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel [43] Rundgren said that the song "didn't sound much like what [Harrison had] done" and speculated that the credit to Harrison "may or may not have been something purposeful, just some by-product of a general Beatle hubris". Dm7 Am7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am7 Dm7 (Chorus) Light of the world shine on me love is the answer (let it shine let it shine) Dm7 Am7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am7 Dm7 Shine on us all set us free love is the answer Am. $29.99. As of 2022, the PatroNet.com website was not active. Eventually the group completed their lineup with former Rundgren bassist Kasim Sulton and studio drummer Prairie Prince of the Tubes, who had played on XTC's Rundgren-produced Skylarking and who has recorded and toured with Rundgren. [144] As of 2012, Tyler maintains a close relationship with Rundgren. Were in the key of A minor, so the opening F is functioning as the bVI chord, while the Fsus2#4 serves as a suspended V chord bridge to the tonic Am. [4], As a solo artist from 1972 to 1978, Rundgren scored four US Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including one Top 10 hit with "Hello, It's Me",[52] and three US Top 40 albums on the Billboard 200. [9] As a member of the Nazz, he learned his craft as a songwriter and vocal arranger, and was determined to equal the artistry of the Beatles. [146] Darvin had previously been with Bruce Springsteen in a relationship that ended in 1977. 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[38], Rundgren's industry reputation grew substantially as a result of his success with Runt, and for the first time in his life, he began using recreational drugs. The first, for "Change Myself" from 2nd Wind, was widely distributed as a demo reel for the Toaster. Writing for AllMusic, music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine recognizes Rundgren thus: Todd Rundgren's best-known songs the Carole King pastiche "I Saw the Light," the ballads "Hello, It's Me" and "Can We Still Be Friends," and the goofy novelty "Bang on the Drum All Day" suggest that he is a talented pop craftsman but at his core, Rundgren is a rock & roll maverick. On guitar, however, it translates to a five-fret-stretch giraffe chord.. were made completely by himself. Rundgren was to produce Janis Joplin's third and ultimately final album, Pearl (1971), but plans fell through, as the two artists could not get along with each other. 8a transposes Cmaj7(T) down four whole steps to Emaj7(T) to facilitate the use of open strings, and assigns an alternating-bass-and-chord rhythmic motif. The six grids illustrated in Ex. [81] In September, the magazine published Lennon's response, in which he denied the charges and referred to the musician as "Turd Runtgreen": "I have never claimed to be a revolutionary. Stop here first. 11b and then to the really high two-note inversions in Ex. [52] "Hello It's Me", which followed late in 1973, reached number 5. If I get that one minute of total illumination then I don't care if my whole career goes down the drain. Having discovered them on the white piano keys as root-position inversions in the key of C he once described the major-seven chord as sounding so melancholy Todd figured out how to transpose them to other keys. [3] and he was also influential in the fields of power pop, lo-fi, overdubbing, and experimental music. [135] The album is sometimes regarded as both the pinnacle of Rundgren's production career and of the career of XTC. Outside projects and productions and the continuing evolution of Todd's career. "I'm so grateful to him, I have so much love for him. Be sure to check out the fan review project. The film was part of a special screening at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2002.[113]. Savor the beautiful dissonances created by those half-step rubs.. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren in his hotel room. But beyond the elements of her composition, I always thought it was the way she played her own material that really sold it. This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 17:29. "[137] All three members expressed admiration for the end product. [105] Tortured Artist marked the end of Rundgren's tenure with Bearsville Records. [110], Rundgren was an early adopter of the NewTek Video Toaster and made several videos with it. [53] "Couldn't I Just Tell You" was influential to artists in the power pop genre. Assign the same bass-chord rhythm to each measure of Ex. And then theres Todds mercurial T-chord, so named by many of the musicians who have played and/or recorded with Todd Rundgren myself included and marveled at (and been confounded by) this ethereal structure that figures so prominently in his music. [9] Rundgren acknowledged that, in the case of his own records, he does not think "as a producer", but uses the studio to "assist in creating a performance". It was pretty much trial and error. [3] Magazine ads depicted a smiling Rundgren daring the reader to "ignore me". Youve got Jimis seven sharp-nine, Miles minor six-nine, Georges seven flat-nine, Donald and Walters Mu chord and Princes funky minor sixes. Although lesser known, "Couldn't I Just Tell You" (1972) was influential to many artists in the power pop genre. At age eleven, Liv learned that her biological father was Steven Tyler. He moved to New York in the summer of 1969 and involved himself with the clubs of Greenwich Village, particularly Steve Paul's Scene, and met a number of Manhattan musicians and fashion designers. 2021: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Feeling ambitious? [3], In the weeks following the album's release, Rundgren produced Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band and the New York Dolls' self-titled debut album, which were among the most significant LPs of the year. [14][nb 1], In 1968, after recording four demo discs, the Nazz were signed by Atlantic Records subsidiary Screen Gems Columbia (SGC). Like Rundgren's solo albums A Wizard, a True Star (1973) and Initiation (1975), the album pushed the limits of vinyl. seen as a magnum opus due to its mix of power pop, rock n roll, and more. Granted, leader Todd Rundgren kept busy in the interim, but it was an abnormally long time between records. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Victor Entertainment Vicp-63459/66 Todd Rundgren/Utopia Back To at the best online prices at eBay! Two-chord modal vamps over any diatonic bass note can be created by following Cmaj7(T) with the F triad voicing shown in bar 2. These chords are not . American musician, songwriter, and record producer (born 1948), After a long absence from touring, Rundgren hit the road with, A brief 1992 tour of Japan reunited the Rundgren/Powell/Sulton/Wilcox lineup, and, (Japanese-imported compilation of unreleased tracks), He said he was not enamored with the Beatles after. [36] As he prepared a follow-up LP, he produced Halfnelson, the debut album by the band that would become Sparks. [40] Released June 1971, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren bore two singles, "Be Nice to Me" and "A Long Time, a Long Way To Go", neither of which repeated the success of "We Gotta Get You a Woman". [74][nb 4] Utopia played more shows throughout November and December, performing material from Something/Anything? Rundgren is well known among his fans as being an electronic music revolutionary. [80] When asked about the Melody Maker feud, Chapman stated he was not aware of the musicians' interactions in the press until years after they occurred. Both albums marked, in part, a return to his Philly soul roots. That is, he played all the instruments, sang all the vocals, did all of the recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. TODD RUNDGREN 3 DVD BOX SET ( Live in Japan San Francisco Desktop Collection ) 16.75 [141][142][143][textsource integrity?] [21] When Rundgren heard the record, he was struck by "all the major seventh chords and variations on augmented and suspended chords", and it had an immediate impact on his songwriting, especially as he began to compose more on piano. But unlike the other guitarists mentioned, Todd has always had more than one chord up his sleeve, and Ive spent the better part of the past half-century translating his primarily keyboard-based voicings to the fretboard. [147] Together, they have a son, named Rebop. calls the song "likely the greatest power pop recording ever made," with lyrics "somehow both desperate and lighthearted at the same time," and a guitar solo having "truly amazing dexterity and inflection". [98] To promote the work, Rundgren undertook an American tour playing at smaller venues including The Bottom Line in New York and The Roxy in Los Angeles. Rundgrens musical knowledge was informed by contemporary classical (Ravel, Debussy, Satie), pop (Burt Bacharach) and show music (Gilbert & Sullivan, Leonard Bernstein), as well at the work of the Beatles, the Who, the Beach Boys and Laura Nyro. Hit the G three times in bar 2, and then follow up in bars 3 and 4 with the uniquely voiced Gsus4 and G resolution (U-to-pi-a!). Rumors followed that Rundgren had joined Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes in rehearsals for a possible new Cars lineup. The tour began in April and was cancelled after only a couple weeks on the road. Utopia embarked on their first successful tour between March and April 1974, after which Rundgren produced Hello People's The Handsome Devils and Hall & Oates' War Babies. 4b features major triads (A and G) sandwiched between minor triads (F#m and Bm), again played over a static A bass note, as employed in two different keys on King Kong Reggae, from 1974s Todd. $30.20. [101], 1981 saw the album-long concept work Healing. Maybe you don't like music with lots of major and minor seventh chords. Create and get +5 IQ. Todd Rundgren Utopia Live In Columbus, Ohio 1980 DVD - UK Seller - Like New. I'm not doing as much record production as I used to, so interesting tales that go along with those projects dont exist anymore. [95] Popularly viewed as his most immediately accessible work since Something/Anything?, it received more public attention and radio airplay than most of Rundgren's efforts since A Wizard, a True Star[96] and was heralded as a "return to form" after the string of prog records with Utopia. Starting in the 1960s with the psychedelic band Nazz in Philadelphia, his solo career started out successfully with such hits as "I Saw the Light" and "Hello It's Me" (a reworked Nazz tune). Todd Rundgren 'Live In Japan' DVD (BMG, 2003) 94 minutes of top class Todd! [52], According to music critic Colin Larkin, Something/Anything? This forms the basis for TRs first major foray into making T-chords the foundation of an entire song, namely The Spark of Life, the opening cut from Todd. Examples 2b-d expand the previous figures harmonic breadth by replacing its parallel root-5 chords with diatonic F#m and G triads (which imply A6 and A9sus4) in three inversions. In cases where the act's songs were unfinished, he would complete them and decline a writer's credit. During a break in their relationship, Buell had a brief relationship with Steven Tyler, which resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. The arrangements of the covers were intended to sound as close to the originals as possible, and Rundgren's original songs were written as a reflection of his 1960s influences. [132][nb 7] His most notorious production was for XTC's 1986 album Skylarking, known for the creative tensions and disagreements that arose during its sessions. You can also move G5 up a whole step and add the open high E string to form my favorite TR A5 voicing of all time. Check it out at, Warner Brothers "Loss Leaders" That Feature Todd Rundgren, The International Todd Rundgren Fan Database, I've Been Trying To Get A Message Through The Air To You, TR/Utopia/Nazz Reviews and Magazine articles, Haiku Review of Todd Rundgren's solo albums, Okay Ill Admit It, Ive Got a Man-crush on Todd Rundgren, Metaphysical Interpretations of Todd's Songs, If I Listen to the Radio, I'll Hear About the Latest Things, Differences between Japanese and US/UK releases of "Liars", I Heard It At The Coffee Shop and on the Radio, http://rednoise.x10host.com/toddstuff/tabs/, Baby Let's Swing/The Last Thing You Said/Don't Tie My Hands, I'm Looking At You But I'm Talking To Myself. It included "Everybody Else Is Wrong", another song perceived to have been aimed at Lennon. Somewhere online there is a video of Professor Rundgren giving a lecture at Indiana on how he came to employ the major and minor seventh chords so elegantly. Todd Rundgren's Utopia is the debut album by the American rock band Utopia, released in October 1974 on Bearsville Records. (Tip: To get the full effect, youll need to pre-record those bass notes or get someone to play them.). "[82] Later, Rundgren said, "John and I realized we were being used and I got a phone call from him one day and we just said: 'Let's drop this now. Videopulp and audiopolis. [16] Tensions further increased during the recording of Nazz's second album, as the other members bridled at the formerly unassuming Rundgren asserting complete control of the sessions as the producer. 10 is less rock-oriented. Information on Todd's first enhanced CD recording, Information on Todd's Bosa Nova release, and a bit of humor, Todd and the Covers plus, favorite series from. Looking forward to a few more! Please disable ad blocker to use Yalp, thanks. Try pedaling them over any static bass note from the key of D. Typical Todd usage includes shifting F#m, Em and G triads over a pedal A bass ( la Boat on the Charles, from his 1971 album, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (opens in new tab)), as shown in Ex. On the first reissue of the album, released in 1978, the title of "Utopia" was changed to "Utopia Theme" and publishing credits were changed from Earmark Music to Earmark Music and Screen Gems - Columbia Music. [69] Rundgren also prepared a technologically ambitious stage show with a band later to be known as Utopia Mark I, consisting of Tony Sales, Hunt Sales, keyboardist Dave Mason, and synthesizer specialist Jean-Yves "M Frog" Labat. "[130], Rundgren's production work for other artists were largely one-off affairs. [79] In 1974, Rundgren and Lennon were embroiled in a minor feud over comments Rundgren made in the February edition of Melody Maker magazine. 3. [65][67] Although critical reception to the album was mixed,[65] Wizard became highly influential to musicians in the ensuing decades. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren. [citation needed]. Chords for Todd Rundgren with Utopia - The Last Ride 0:00 / 0:00 T ranspose : +0 share favorite Chords Notes album Simplified Major & minor chords only album Advanced info_outline Includes 6,7,aug,hdim7 chords lock_outline album Bass info_outline Advance chords for bass album Edited info_outline All Edited versions G G# Cm D# Dm C D Fm F C# Gm A# $39.98. He grew up in the bordering town of Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania[8] and taught himself how to play guitar with little help. If the image on the front cover of an all-seeing eye at the centre of a pattern of coloured balls suggested there might not be too many I . Likewise, Ex. "[144] Buell's stated reason for claiming that Rundgren was Liv's father was that Tyler was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of Liv's birth.[145]. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. I threw out all the rules of record making and decided I would try to imprint the chaos in my head onto a record without trying to clean it up for everyone else's benefit. This line-up performed their first show at Central Park on August 25, 1973, sharing the bill with the Brecker Brothers and Hall & Oates. Four cute guys sporting Beatle cuts this was not. You know, when he holds me it feels like Daddy. Todd's songs: A section/article that has been updated in the last two weeks. after I met her the first time, she asked me if I wanted to be her band leader. The hammered C/E triad and G/D in bar 2 provide a pickup to the repeat of the same figure. [97] In the US, the LP peaked at number 36, while single "Can We Still Be Friends" reached number 29. A Collection of TR noises for your computer. Many of his solo albums, including Something/Anything?]' [24] Grossman promised to Rundgren that he would become the "highest-paid producer in the world", which later came true. The songs main vocal and instrumental theme (Ex. After a thirty-year-plus hiatus, Todd Rundgren's Utopia graced the Chicago Theater stage, with the hopes of promising fans an extraordinary, other-worldly concert experie. Early on, he often favored the IV-III-II-I progression and used it in many compositions, including his hit Hello Its Me, where it appears in two different keys (F and Bb), as shown in Ex. If you've got tabs Utopia was a talented outfit, and fit Rundgren well. Bath For total authenticity, play through a Uni-Vibe, pick the F#5 and slide into the G5. This functions as a Gsus2#4 suspension that resolves to the following G chord, all framing Todds sublime City in my head lyric in a moment that personifies that signature Lydian Rundgren sound. [51][pageneeded] Lead single "I Saw the Light" peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first of these, 1993's No World Order, consisted of hundreds of seconds-long snippets of music, that could be combined in various ways to suit the listener. Ex. As the Internet gained mass acceptance, Rundgren, along with longtime manager Eric Gardner and Apple digital music exec Kelli Richards, started PatroNet, which offered fans (patrons) access to his works-in-progress and new unreleased tracks in exchange for a subscription fee, cutting out record labels. It doesnt take into account the genius of the melodies, lyrics and arrangements he crafts in his songs. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. [89] Oops! If I needed cash, I would show up at the accountants and they would just give me hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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