{"id":6155,"date":"2016-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/todd-rundgren-releases-new-live-album\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"todd-rundgren-releases-new-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/todd-rundgren-releases-new-live-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Rundgren releases new live album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noblepr.co.uk\/Press_Releases\/toddrundgren\/images\/todd_rundgren_live_at_the_ridgefield.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><br \/>Cleopatra Records\u00a0is pleased to announce \u201cAn Evening With Todd Rundgren \u2013 Live At The Ridgefield\u201d on\u00a0August 26, 2016. Get ready for an incredible concert experience, a multi-media extravaganza available on CD, Vinyl, DVD, and Blu-ray, starring classic rock icon and famed songwriter\/producer\u00a0Todd Rundgren.\u00a0 Watch the video clip of Todd\u2019s electrifying performance of \u201cBlack Maria\u201d as featured on the upcoming release &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aqKCGH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aqKCGH<\/a>. \u00a0     <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13170\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13169\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">A Wizard, A True Star, the title of his 1973 solo album, aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist, Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular music. He had produced more than fifty records for other artists, including Hall &amp; Oates, Cheap Trick, Patti Smith, XTC, Grand Funk Railroad, The Band, and Meat Loaf&#8217;s\u00a0Bat Out of Hell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13167\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13166\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">Recorded live at the Ridgefield Playhouse in\u00a0Ridgefield, Connecticut\u00a0on\u00a0December 15, 2015, Rundgren&#8217;s new release includes some of his best known songs including \u201cHello It&#8217;s Me\u201d, \u201cI Saw The Light\u201d and \u201cBang The Drum\u201d.\u00a0 Plus, hear\/watch fan favourites that haven&#8217;t been performed live in decades,\u00a0including songs from TR\u2019s unforgettable\u00a0Utopia\u00a0and\u00a0Nazz\u00a0anthems.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13165\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13131\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">The set list consists of milestone Rundgren classics taken from his rich back catalogue, including songs from the albums \u201cSomething\/Anything\u201d (1972), \u201cA Wizard, a True Star\u201d (1973), \u201cFaithful\u201d (1976), \u201cHermit of Mink Hollow\u201d (1978), \u201cThe Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect\u201d(1982), \u201cA Cappella\u201d(1985), \u201c2nd Wind\u201d (1991), \u201cOne Long Year\u201d (2000), \u201cLiars\u201d (2004), \u201cGlobal\u201d (2015), plus key cuts from the Utopia albums \u201cOops! Wrong Planet\u201d (1977), \u201cSwing To The Right\u201d (1982) and \u201cPOV\u201d (1985), as well as from the first two\u00a0albums by Todd\u2019s seminal 60\u2019s band\u00a0The Nazz (1968 and 1969).<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13235\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471890506560_13236\" class=\"yiv4634839437MsoNormal\">Source: http:\/\/www.trconnection.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleopatra Records\u00a0is pleased to announce \u201cAn Evening With Todd Rundgren \u2013 Live At The Ridgefield\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}