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Todd, Janis and Hawk

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Marc Myers
Nov 24, 2018
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The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed Todd Rundgren on Hello It's Me for my "Anatomy of a Song" column (go here). Todd talked about the high-school breakup that inspired the No. 5 Billboard hit, which first was recorded in 1968 as a ballad with his group Nazz and again in 1972 as the more familiar bouncier rendition for his Something/Anyth…

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