Is todd rundgren gay

GLAM ROCK I: TODD RUNDGREN

Todd Rundgren’s glitter phase was not about the gender indeterminacy, real or feigned, one came to expect of Glam Rock (Rundgren's machismo was certified platinum when he won the hand of Bebe Buell, rock music's Helen of Troy). The hair colors, facial glitter, jewelry and warrior-sprite-prom queen costumes were the trappings of a wizard, a pharaoh and a god, which is what the fans started calling Rundgren, who happily assumed those mantels.

The wizard practiced his craft at a studio Albert Grossman built for Rundgren at his Bearsville Records outpost in Woodstock. As it turns out, Rundren’s elaborate, challenging, meticulously-crafted, occasionally self-indulgent on-stage wardrobe from the period of A Wizard, A True Star through Ra (1973-77), was not just dressing up for fans--it was am emblem of his approach to music making and production, epitomized by the first Utopia albums. This description of the studio is from a 1973 interview with Rundgren:

At the studio, construction on the Utopia Landing Module, a geodesic dome to be covered completely in silver mylar, is underway. All of Jean-Yves’ synthesizers will be

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TORSTEN SCHMIDT
It is yet again a very distinct honor to welcome a man of truly many, many hats. Please, everyone, present a warm hand for Mr. Todd Rundgren.
[applause]
Now, there’s the menace of sitting here for eight hours, because we won’t ever be able to possibly cover everything and anything. And what we’re going to do first is probably play a short-lived video that he kindly provided, which gives you a brief bit of a very uneven overview of a lot of different directions this could be going, but we’re going to be focusing on only one or two of them. So, how about... Doing this?
(video: Medley of Todd Rundgren’s productions and his music)
Right. So, any questions at this stage? You earn the idea, there’s a plethora of avenues that we could pursue now and go down. And what to do in such a case, other than restarting your computer ’cause it’s a little confused. How about starting at the very beginning? You’re from the Pennsylvania area. Philly and all of that, right?
Todd Rundgren
Yeah, I grew up in the Philadelphia area. There is a distinct musical scene in the Philadelphia area, but at the time it mostly revolved around a la

Return to Gender: Todd Rundgren and Rufus Wainwright’s Elastic Masculinity
Todd Rundgren
When I saw that Todd Rundgren was playing Park West this month, I decided to take a spin through his extensive body of work to reacquaint myself with his oeuvre. Which isn’t so easily done; Rundgren’s a restless talent, hard to pin down, and over the past forty-odd years he’s ranged everywhere from bossa nova to EDM.
But the most significant surprise came from a ballad relatively early in his career: 1971’s pop hit, “We Gotta Get You a Woman.” And the surprise was entirely of the how-the-hell-did-anyone-think-this-was-okay variety. The song (still ridiculously catchy after all these decades) finds Rundgren serenading his dejected friend Leroy with the resolution, “We gotta find you a gal / It’s fond of nothin’ else to make you sense sure you’re alive.” Granted, this was just a trickle past the cusp of the seventies, when feminism was still a set-up for late-night talk-show jokes; but appreciate so many things about the period (casual racism, blithe homophobia and that whole genocidal-bombing-in-Cambodia thing), it shocks us well-meaning twenty-first-century folk that anyone could ever get

Fascinating NYTimes article on the influence of homosexual men on rock
WordMan1
Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/style/the-gay-architects-of-classic-rock.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Well written article. Covers the famous prefer Brian Epstein and Jann Wenner and the Who’s Kit Lambert, but many others, too. Includes an unfortunate but fascinating story involving a homophobic Harry Nilsson and a awesome George Harrison.
A great view into an fascinating and important dimension of rock.
Chronos2
Fascinating indeed, but I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t say anything about those performers who were gay. Yes, yes, of course the majority were and are straight: That’s no surprise, since the majority of the population as a whole are straight.
Elendil_s_Heir3
Thanks, WordMan. I learned a lot from that article - quite interesting.
ZipperJJ4
Chronos:
Fascinating indeed, but I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t say anything about those performers who were gay. Yes, yes, of course the majority were and are st