Todd Rundgren - At the BBC 1972-1982 [3CD / DVD] (CD Box Set)

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the first ever official release of Todd Rundgren at the BBC. This four-disc collection comprises three CDs and a DVD featuring all of the surviving radio and television broadcasts in the BBC archive transmitted on radio and television in the UK between 1972 and 1982.

The set features on CD Todd's solo 1972 BBC Radio One In Concert performance, recorded soon after the release of his seminal album Something Anything, the classic 1975 performance by Todd Rundgren and Utopia at Hammersmith Odeon, London, (including a previously unreleased track Something's Coming) - on the first ever UK concert tour of Todd Rundgren and Utopia, a 1977 performance at the Oxford Polytechnic by Todd Rundgren and Utopia (promoting the Ra album), and a DVD featuring three different performances for the classic Old Grey Whistle Test series; the 1975 Todd Rundgren and Utopia session, a film of Todd Rundgren & Utopia at the Bearsville Picnic in 1977 (performing Singring and the Glass Guitar) and the entire recordings made for a 1982 solo Todd Rundgren Whistle Test special (including two songs not featured on the original TV broadcast).

This set is sure to delight the legions of Todd Rundgren fans and is a superb document of Todd's continuing development as both a solo artist and with his band Utopia between 1972 and 1982.

Todd Rundgren at the BBC has been remastered and authored from the original BBC masters and is presented in a clamshell box with a booklet featuring a new essay.

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Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. I Saw the Light
2. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
3. Piss Aaron
4. Hello It's Me
5. Be Nice to Me
6. Real Man
7. The Seven Rays
8. Black Maria
9. Todd Rundgren & Utopia

CD 2:
1. Freedom Fighters
2. Mister Triskets
3. Something's Coming
4. The Last Ride
5. Sunset Boulevard / Le Feel Internacionale
6. Heavy Metal Kids
7. The Wheel
8. Open My Eyes
9. Sons of 1984
10. Do Ya
11. Couldn't I Just Tell You

CD 3:
1. Communion With the Sun
2. Love of the Common Man
3. Sunburst Finish
4. Jealousy
5. Windows
6. Singring and the Glass Guitar
7. Utopia Theme

DVD:
1. Real Man
2. The Seven Rays
3. Bearsville Picnic
4. Love of the Common Man
5. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
6. Too Far Gone
7. Can We Still Be Friends
8. The Reason Why
9. Compassion
10. Lysistrata
11. Tiny Demons
12. Time Heals (Promotional Video)
13. One World
14. A Dream Goes on Forever