- '67 His band Nazz were arguably the first anglophiles in rock history. [All Music Guide]
- '78 Todd performed the first interactive television concert
broadcast live over the Warner/QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio (the home
audience chose each song in real time during the concert by voting via
QUBE's two-way operating system).[Cool Site Of The Day]
- '78 Todd delivered the first live nationally broadcast radio
concert in stereo (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country.[Cool Site Of The Day]
- '78 " Todd Rundgren, for all the good it may do him or us, is the first non-British musician/band to, as Hefner used to put it, "grace the cover" of Trouser Press." [Trouser Press]
- '79 Todd opened Utopia Video Studios, a cutting-edge video production enterprise. Utopia Video Studios' first project was a version of Gustav Holst's The Planets, a demonstration disc for Videodisc by RCA SelectaVision. [All Music Guide]
- '80 Todd released "Time Heals," the first music video to combine computer graphics and live action; it would later be the second video played on MTV. [All Music Guide]
- '81 He created the first graphics tablet driven paintbox software for personal computers, which was subsequently licensed to Apple
Computer as the "Utopia Graphics Tablet System".[Cool Site Of The Day]
- '82 Rundgren performed the first live national cablecast of a rock
concert via USA Network, which was simulcast in stereo to over 120 radio
stations.[Cool Site Of The Day]
- '82 Todd produced the first two commercially released music
videos, one of which was nominated for the first-ever Grammy awarded for
"Best Short Form Video" in 1983.[Cool Site Of The Day]
- '91 Todd made the first fully computer-animated music video produced on a desktop system ("Change Myself"). [MP3.COM Artist Spotlight]
- '93 Todd established a new musical genre when he
composed, produced and performed the world's first interactive
audio-only CD-ROM project, "No World Order". [Cool Site Of The Day]
- '93 The world's first interactive concert tour.[RingoTour.com]
- '95 Rundgren continued his long history of multimedia 'firsts' with the release of "The Individualist". Described by Rundgren as a 'multimedia album', the title was available exclusively as an Enhanced CD (one of the first in the category). [Cool Site Of The Day]
- '97 Todd was one of the first Western artists to perform for the Chinese during the summer Shanghai Festival. [All Music Guide]
- '98 Todd launches PatroNet, the world’s first direct artist subscription and digital delivery service.
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