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Can’t Stop Running: Todd Rundgren’s ‘Nearly Human’ at 30
Reviews: Aphoristic Album Reviews Rolling Stone (reprint)
Personnel: Todd Rundgren (guitar, vocals); Byron Allred (piano, synthesizer, synthesizer brass); Rick Anderson, Randy Jackson, Kasim Sulton (bass); Peter Apfelbaum (clarinet); Mary Arnold, Keta Bill, John Hampton, Raz Kennedy, .D. Smart II, Bill Spooner, Annie Stocking (background vocals); Vernon "Ice" Black, Lyle Workman (guitar); Jim Blinn, Bruce Paine (trombone); Brent Bourgeois (Hsmmond organ synthesizer, background vocals); Paul Brancato, Roberta Freier, Stefan Hersh, Nathan Rubin, John Tenney (strings); Kim Cataluna, Michele Gray, Skyler Jett, Melisa Kary, Scott Mathews, Vicki Randle, Cary Sheldon, Shandi Sinnamon, Bryan Thym, Jeanie Tracy (choir/chorus, background vocals) ; Clarence Clemons, Vince Ebo, Shirley Faulkner, Emma Jean Foster, Paul Gilbert, Eric Martin, Kelly Moneymaker, Jenni Muldaur, Paul Scott (choir/chorus); Nate Ginsberg, Scott Moon, Roger Powell (synthesiser); Barbara Imhoff (harp); Ralph Legnini, Gary Yost (tambourine); Mingo Lewis (congas); Michael Pluznick (congas, shaker); Prairie Prince (drums, electric drums, percussion); Jimmy Pugh (Hammond organ); Mike Rose, Paul Shaghoian (trumpet); Bobby Strickland (flute, baritone sax, tenor sax); Larry Tagg (bass, vocals); Michael Urbano (drums, timbales); Narada Michael Walden (choirmaster on I Love My Life); Vince Welnick (accordion, piano, synthesizer); John Wilcox (drums); Bobby Womack (vocals on The Want of a Nail).