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Todd Rundgren on Joining the ‘Burt Bacharach Songbook Live’ Tour: ‘When a Seminal Influence Is Involved, It’s Payback’
Todd Rundgren talks about Burt Bacharach's influence as he joins the 'What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert' tour.
Stepping up to present much of that material in a new light is a tour dubbed “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live,” which kicks off this weekend in southern California with Todd Rundgren in the nine-piece ensemble and handling many of the lead vocals on Bacharach/Hal David classics from the ’60s, ’70s and beyond. Rundgren will not be doing any of his own material when he hits L.A.’s Wiltern on Sunday night, among other dates, but the show may still represent a utopian ideal for many of his fans, who will recognize some of the same gifts for melodic genius evident across his and his hero’s respective catalogs. Appearing on select dates, including Saturday’s tour opening at the Ventura Theatre and the following night’s Wiltern show, are Men at Work frontman Colin Hay and Lady Blackbird.
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