A Dream Goes on Forever: The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Review

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A Dream Goes on Forever: The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren ReviewThank goodness an effort has been made to compile a book on someone who time will identify as one of the most important composers and producers of the 20th century. If you've even looked this book up on Amazon, you recognize the brilliance of Todd Rundgren.
I'd really like to say this was a great book, but I can't. The story it tells is fascinating, but the execution, I'm sorry Billy James, is quite weak. There is no way this book was edited by someone other than James. There are sentences that are not sentences, wrong words all over the place ("there" instead of "their" kind of stuff), misspelled words, mistyped quotes, words that are used in a completely wrong way, redundant information, and very obvious questions that the text raises that are never asked and never answered. The writing style is also uncomfortable. There seem to be many instances where James wanted to use a bigger word, hit the thesaurus button on his computer, and replaced the earlier term with something that is either used inappropriately, or that comes off as being completely goofy.
The most disturbing part is when you read things that are just plain wrong. They're generally miniscule things, but just knowing that information in what's supposed to be a biography is inaccurate makes you lose some faith in the other things you read. For example, James talks about Todd's break up with his high school girlfriend, Marlene, as being the inspiration for several songs on "Something/Anything". What we have here is a misinterpretation of something James probably read somewhere. Marlene was Todd's girlfriend while he was recording "Something/Anything", not while he was in high school. At the time they were together she was only 17-years-old. See what I mean? It's a tiny little point that doesn't amount to anything, and you can see how he made the mistake, but it causes you to lose faith in the accuracy of the other things you're reading.
This is volume one of what presumably will be at least two volumes. It takes you up through "Faithful" and John Siegler's departure, so it would seem the arrival of Kasim Sultan and the release of "Ra" will kick off the next book.
Hopefully this book will spark enough interest to encourage others to write on the topic of Todd. (That's what happened with Syd Barrett. Mike Watkinson wrote a so-so book called "Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd: Crazy Diamond." That book was followed by a brilliant biography of Barrett by Julian Palacios called "Lost in the Woods - Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd." Highly recommended.)
Sorry, but it's not a very good read. At the same time, though, I can't wait to buy and read Volume Two.A Dream Goes on Forever: The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Overview

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