[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

To #15 re Rundgren’s hits.
From the Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits”, 7th Edition, Joel Whitburn (hits from 1955-2000),

Highest place on the Billboard charts:
- #20 _We Gotta Get You A Woman - not bad
- #16 - I Saw the Light
- #5 - Hello It’s Me
- #34 - Good Vibrations
= #29 - Can We Still Be Friends
End of career, 1978. No more Top 40 hits.

[MarkL]

Yeah, not really. I'm continually surprised by the sheer childishness of many comments on this and other threads. I'm not criticizing your right to say these things, it's certainly your right. But to say his career was over in the 1970s is WAY wrong.

He was an early pioneer in digital synthesizers and video production. He was an early pioneer in experimental and progressive rock (Utopia v1) and Pop (Utopia v2.) And he work as a producer far eclipses his own music. He's been a innovator, and influence on many musicians and song writers.

You may have heard of some of the artists he's produced, and most of his productions are lauded as some of those artists' best work...

Grand Funk Railroad, New York Dolls, Hall & Oates, The Band, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. But you may have heard of one little album he produced that did fairly well. "Bat Out of Hell" by Meatloaf.

Is he a barking moonbat? You bet. His album "Swing to the Left" was an unabashed swipe at Conservatives. But that doesn't diminish his talent and influence in music.

Mark