A Dream Goes on Forever: the Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren: The Utopia Years

by James, Billy; Rogers, Tony (CON); Sulton, Kasim

• ISBN13: 9780971049352
• ISBN10: 0971049351
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Golden Treasures Pub

Summary

There is no more consummate musician than Todd Rundgren. There is no more complete collected account of his sonic accomplishments than A Dream Goes on Forever. This second volume of the biographic series tracks his history from the triumphant mid-'70s atop the golden pyramid to the challenging mid-'80s when he faced the demise of Utopia. Follow the album-by-album coverage from Todd's landmark 1977 production of Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell through to the persistence of vision which allowed him to continue creating music after the end of his video studio, record label, and band. From Utopia to Oblivion...and beyond.

Author Biography

Billy James, born 11/11/1960 and a native of North Carolina, graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1982. He moved to Los Angeles in 1983, and recorded drums on Steve Vai's first solo album Flex-Able. Through Vai, James met Frank Zappa and began exchanging various ideas on rhythm with him throughout the 1980s (some of which were utilized in James unpublished textbook on rhythmic theory). Other books by Billy James are No More Mr. Nice Guy - The Alice Cooper Days (with Michael Bruce), Lunar Notes Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (with Bill Harkleroad), An American Band The Grandfunk Railroad Story, Necessity Is... The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Beyond and Before The Formative Years of Yes (with Peter Banks) and A Dream Goes On Forever The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Volume 1.