Todd is the fifth album and second double album by American musician Todd Rundgren, released in February 1974 on Bearsville Records. It is the follow-up to the previous year's A Wizard, a True Star and features a comparatively heavier reliance on guitar playing and synthesizers. About half of the tracks were performed by Rundgren alone, with the other half recorded with varying configurations of musicians. In the US, the album peaked at number 54, while lead single "A Dream Goes On Forever" reached number 69. Background In March 1973, Rundgren's fourth album A Wizard, a True Star was released. Recorded at his newly built Secret Sound Studios in Manhattan, Wizards sound and structure was heavily informed by his recent experiments in psychedelic drugs. Critical reception to Wizard was mixed, and according to Rundgren, the album was generally regarded as "professional suicide". In the weeks following the album's release, he produced the New York Dolls' self-titled debut album and Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, which were among the most significant LPs of the year. Rundgren also prepared a technologically ambitious stage show with a new band, Utopia, his first official group since the Nazz. The tour began in April and was cancelled after only a couple weeks on the road. Once Rundgren was finished with his production duties, he began formulating plans for an improved configuration of Utopia, but first returned to Secret Sound to record the songs that became Todd, which was more material drawing on his hallucinogenic experiences. This time, he had also formed a fascination with religion and spirituality, reading works by authors such as Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Jiddu Krishnamurti that he found at an occult book store in Lower Manhattan. He said he "started to have a great curiosity about where that psychedelic experience fits into not just my own personal history but the larger history of people's quest for meaning." Style and production Compared to Wizard, Todd is a more synthesizer-heavy affair, although it still employs Rundgren's usual selection of guitar, piano, and found sounds (including spoons). Its musical contents range from Gilbert and Sullivan-style show tunes to fusions of Philadelphia soul and progressive rock. Due to the recent success of the "Hello It's Me" single, Rundgren was primarily known as a writer of ballads. In March 1974, he penned an article for Phonograph Record in which he compared Todd to his