{"id":31,"date":"2013-09-25T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrymusicarchives\/2013\/09\/25\/hobo-review-1-todd-rundgren-wizard-a-true-star\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:10:00","slug":"hobo-review-1-todd-rundgren-wizard-a-true-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrymusicarchives\/2013\/09\/25\/hobo-review-1-todd-rundgren-wizard-a-true-star\/","title":{"rendered":"HOBO REVIEW 1 – TODD RUNDGREN – Wizard a True Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

This review was  published in Hobo No 2 August 1973<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nAlbum review by Mike O’Hare <\/b>of Coventry Virgin Records 1973<\/p>\n
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Not knowing a great deal about Todd Rundgren<\/b>, I didn\u2019t really know what to expect from the man. But after listening to this album several times I can tell you that if he ever tours England he\u2019s going to knock that man Bowie off his perch as the No1 star because \u2018Wizard a True Star<\/i>\u2019 is just what he is.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nHere is an LP produced by the man himself which will give you (for \u00a32 (in 1973!) if you know the right places) nearly 60 minutes of pure mind blowing hootin\u2019 \u2013 tootin\u2019, zappy music, which will make you say that you can\u2019t wait for the next time to play it. If you like good titles you\u2019ve got \u2018em: – \u201cTic tic tic it Wears Off<\/i>.\u201d; \u201cWhen the Shit Hits the Fans<\/i>\u201d; \u201cLe Feel Internationale<\/i>\u201d and, wait for it, \u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Pussy!<\/i>\u201d. It\u2019s just too much.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIf you turn up the volume when you put it on, don\u2019t be surprised if you think your speakers can\u2019t control the different <\/span>sounds coming through them. Every track is linked and spaced with phased guitars (played by none other than Rick Deminger). Thousands of sexy, synthy sounds, animal noises, 17 mad Ginger Bakers and just about everything you could and couldn\u2019t imagine.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThis album is a gas and if you\u2019re one of these nutcases who thinks of nothing else but sex and depravity and sits through Clockwork Orange<\/i>, laughing your head off, then go out and buy the bloody thing! Oh by the way, as a warning, if you think too much while you\u2019re listening to it you\u2019ll go blind!!<\/span><\/div>\n
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0:00 International Feel; 2:59 Never Never Land; 4:25 Tic, Tic, Tic, It Wears Off; 5:39 You Need Your Head; 6:41 Rock N Roll Pussy; 7:50 Dogfight Giggle; 8:55 You Don\u2019t Have\ufeff To Camp Around; 9:58 Flamingo; 12:33 Zen Archer; 18:08 Just Another Onion Head\/Da Da Dali; 20:32 Sunset Blvd; 24:38 Le Feele Internacionale; 26:27 Sometimes I Don\u2019t Know What To\ufeff Feel; 30:43 Does Anybody Love You;32:14 I\u2019m So Proud; 35:03 Ooh Baby Baby; 37:57 La La La Means I Love You; 40:15 Cool Jerk; 42:49 Hungry For Love; 45:08 I Don\u2019t Want To Tie You Down; 47:03 Is It My Name;51:05 Just One Victory<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Trev, Was Mike Irish with curly red hair? If so, he stayed with us when I worked for Viirgin. In fact, I remember him being a really sound and bright guy. I think I moved up there about 74 and within a couple of years the company was making that transition from being a record-shop that (in addition to stocking items that no-one else would) sold skins, chillums, pipes etc only to find that our next premises was the former Woolworths shop and we would also be stocking Abba, Streisand, Neil Diamond etc. Nice guy, but I suspect he might also have tired of the Virgin reconstruction that has subsequently homogenised our city-centres into identical corporate homogeneity.<\/p>\n

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