claimed that "what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music. Music is the way I understand how to communicate now ... but it will eventually have to go beyond that." Music writer Bob Stanley commented that, with Wizard, Rundgren combined all his musical loves, such as "bits of Gershwin, Weimar cabaret and a fight between electronic dogs", into "a red-blooded synth stew". Packaging Wizard was packaged in an unconventionally-shaped album cover. The surrealistic painting on the front cover was designed by Arthur Wood. He included coded messages in the image, which Rundgren referenced in a 2009 interview: Also included within the die-cut album cover was a poem by Patti Smith, "Star Fever", written on an enlarged Band-Aid facsimile. It also included a postcard that implored the record owner to "send this card in and we'll put your name on the next record." Rundgren credited both of these features as Grossman's ideas. Release and Utopia tour A Wizard, a True Star was released on March 2, 1973 and charted at number 86 on the Billboard 200. At Rundgren's behest, no singles were issued from the album, as he wanted the tracks to be heard in the context of the LP. Its release coincided with the success of the "Hello It's Me" single. Bearsville executive Paul Fishkin spoke about the label's "bad luck with timing" and explained "Todd was off on his psychedelic adventure, and then a year later 'Hello' becomes a hit. At which point, we're up against Todd in a completely different mindspace ..." Rundgren refused to issue five more potential singles from Something/Anything?. The album failed to chart in the UK. Wizard marked the beginning of more experimental ventures that Rundgren further explored with the band Utopia. As the album was scheduled for release, he prepared a technologically ambitious stage show with the newly formed group, his first official band since the Nazz. The tour began in April and was cancelled after only a couple weeks on the road. Once Rundgren was finished with other production duties, he began formulating plans for an improved configuration of Utopia, but first returned to Secret Sound to record the more synthesizer-heavy double album Todd, which was more material drawing on his hallucinogenic experiences. "A Dream Goes on Forever", a song originally written for Wizard, was recorded for Todd.