Rockstar Rundgren to lecture on ‘The Beatles Effect’

Todd Rundgren, who has toured with Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band and has worked with the other three former Beatles in the studio in the past, will be talking about the Fab Four during his lecture today.

Rundgren’s public lecture, “LONGHAIR: Todd Rundgren on The Beatles Effect,” will be at 7 p.m. in Ballantine Hall 013 during professor Glenn Gass’ The Music of The Beatles class.

“He’s uniquely well qualified to talk about them,” Gass said.

Rundgren will be in Bloomington for two weeks while teaching a course for Wells’ Scholars called “The Ballad of Todd Rundgren: Musical Journeys of a Lifetime.”

Rundgren held a Q&A during Gass’ Z201 History of Rock class earlier this week. He answered questions from the audience, primarily made up of students, for the entirety of the class and was around long enough to shake hands with and greet a few people from the audience.

“I would really love to see a large student turnout,” Gass said. “The lecture is interesting, of course, but he is a musician, and the concert is the real event.”

Rundgren’s concert, “CLUSTER: The Birth of the T Chord,” will be at 8 p.m. Oct. 31 in Auer Hall in the Jacobs School of Music.