Editing Todd Rundgren (section)

====''Healing'' and ''Tortured Artist Effect''====
The year 1981 saw the album-long concept work ''[[Healing (Todd Rundgren album)|Healing]]''.<ref name="Larkin"/> His music video for the song "Time Heals" was among the first videos aired on [[MTV]], and a video he produced for [[RCA]], accompanied by [[Gustav Holst]]'s ''[[The Planets]]'', was used as a demo for their videodisc players. Rundgren's experience with computer graphics dates back to 1981, when he developed one of the first computer paint programs, dubbed the Utopia Graphics System; it ran on an [[Apple II]] with Apple's digitizer tablet.<ref name="GuardianLiars">{{cite news| title =Talk time: Todd Rundgren | newspaper = The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/mar/18/onlinesupplement/print |access-date=April 21, 2010 |date=March 18, 2004 |first=Hamish | last=Mackintosh}}</ref> He is also the co-developer of the computer [[screensaver]] system [[Flowfazer]].{{sfn|Myers|2010|p=213}}

During this period, Rundgren's Mink Hollow home was robbed. He and his girlfriend were tied up in the home by the robbers as part of the crime. 

The [[New wave music|new wave]]-tinged ''[[The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect]]'' (1982) included a cover of the [[Small Faces]]' hit "[[Tin Soldier (song)|Tin Soldier]]".  "[[Bang The Drum All Day]]", an album single, was a minor chart hit. It later became more prominent and was adopted as an unofficial theme by several professional sports franchises, notably the [[Green Bay Packers]]. Disc Jockey Geno Michellini of KLOS in Los Angeles used "Bang The Drum All Day" as an unofficial kick-off to the weekend on Friday afternoons. "Bang The Drum All Day" was also featured in a [[Carnival Cruise Line|Carnival Cruise]] television advertising campaign. It is now considered one of Rundgren's most popular songs.<ref>{{cite web| last = Guarisco| first = Donald A.| title = Bang The Drum all Day| publisher = AllMusic| date =|url={{AllMusic|class=song|id=t4246117|pure_url=yes}}}}</ref> ''Tortured Artist'' marked the end of Rundgren's tenure with Bearsville Records.<ref>{{cite web|website=Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/138572-Todd-Rundgren|title=Todd Rundgren|access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref>