Healing (Todd Rundgren album)

1981 studio album by Todd Rundgren

Healing

Studio album by

Todd Rundgren

Released| January 28, 1981 [1]
Genre| New-age, pop rock, art pop
Length| 53:37
Label| Bearsville
Rhino
Producer| Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren chronology
| Back to the Bars
(1978)  | Healing
(1981)  | The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
(1982)

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Singles from  Healing

1. "Time Heals"
Released: February 1981
2. "Compassion"
Released: August 1981

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Rolling Stone| [2]

Healing is Todd Rundgren's ninth studio album, released in 1981. The album's themes are spirituality and the human condition, something Rundgren had touched on many times in earlier works but never with the consistency exhibited here as every track explores a different aspect. The back cover image of the album (artwork by Prairie Prince) shows the caduceus and a Qabalistic Tree of Life each overlaid by a treble clef (Which is reversed for the Tree of Life), reflecting Rundgren's linking of his spirituality and music.

The original vinyl release includes a bonus 7" 33rpm single featuring the tracks "Time Heals" and "Tiny Demons" which are unlisted on the album sleeve but are included at the end of the later CD release as tracks 10 and 11. "Tiny Demons" was used in the Miami Vice season 1 episode "Little Prince" during a scene with a strung out heroin user.[3]

"Time Heals" and "Compassion" were both released as singles and a promotional video was made for the former, which was the eighth music video to air on MTV during its launch on August 1, 1981.

## Live performance

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In September 2010, Rundgren performed his Todd and Healing albums live for the first time in Akron, Ohio, followed by concerts in Muskegon MI, Indianapolis IN, St. Louis MO, Glenside PA, and Morristown NJ. Whereas the original Healing album had been entirely performed by Rundgren in the studio, the live performances featured the same band as for the Todd shows: Jesse Gress, Greg Hawkes, Prairie Prince, Bobby Strickland, and Kasim Sulton. Led by choirmaster Dirk Hillyer, local choirs from near each venue joined the band during parts of the Healing set. Large LED display and lasers were on display throughout the shows with Rundgren and the band dressed in extravagant costumes. The shows have been released on DVD.

## Track listing

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Side one

1. "Healer" - 3:40
2. "Pulse" - 3:07
3. "Flesh" - 3:58
4. "Golden Goose" - 3:16
5. "Compassion" - 4:43
6. "Shine" - 8:12

Side two

1. "Healing, Part I" - 7:28
2. "Healing, Part II" - 7:52
3. "Healing, Part III" - 4:40

Bonus 7-inch 33rpm Single

1. "Time Heals" - 3:33
2. "Tiny Demons" - 3:08

In some releases of the LP, "Time Heals" and "Tiny Demons" have been added to the end of the second side.

## Personnel

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* Todd Rundgren - all vocals and instruments, producer, engineer

Technical

* Bean - additional engineering
* Prairie Prince \- artwork

## Charts

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Album

Year  | Chart  | Position

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1981  | US Billboard Pop Albums[4] | 48

Single

Year  | Single  | Chart  | Position

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1981  | "Time Heals"  | Billboard Pop Singles[5] | 107
1981  | "Time Heals"  | Billboard Mainstream Rock[5] | 18
1981  | "Compassion"  | Billboard Mainstream Rock[5] | 48

## Formats

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* Vinyl LP
* Cassette
* 8 Track Tape
* Compact Disc

## References

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1. ^ AllMusic review
2. ^ Rolling Stone review
3. ^ "Miami Vice | Tunefind". www.tunefind.com. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
4. ^ "allmusic ((( Todd Rundgren > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". Billboard. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
5. ^ a b c "allmusic ((( Todd Rundgren > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2011.

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Studio albums|

* Runt
* Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
* Something/Anything?
* A Wizard, a True Star
* Todd
* Initiation
* Faithful
* Hermit of Mink Hollow
* Healing
* The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
* A Cappella
* Nearly Human
* 2nd Wind
* No World Order
* The Individualist
* With a Twist...
* One Long Year
* Liars
* Arena
* Todd Rundgren's Johnson
* (re)Production
* State
* Global
* White Knight
* Space Force

| with Utopia|

* Todd Rundgren's Utopia
* Disco Jets
* RA
* Oops! Wrong Planet
* Adventures in Utopia
* Deface the Music
* Swing to the Right
* Utopia
* Oblivion
* POV

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Live albums|

* Back to the Bars
* Liars Live
* Todd
* Healing
* Todd Rundgren's Johnson Live
* A Wizard a True Star...Live!
* An Evening with Todd Rundgren - Live at the Ridgefield
* The Individualist, a True Star Live

Singles|

* "We Got to Get You a Woman"
* "I Saw the Light"
* "Couldn't I Just Tell You"
* "Hello It's Me"
* "Good Vibrations"
* "Can We Still Be Friends"
* "Bang the Drum All Day"
* "Flappie"

Other songs|

* "Dreams of Ordinary Men"
* "Kissing with Confidence"
* "Love Is the Answer"
* "Shake a Fist"
* "Western Girls"

Album
productions|

* Great Speckled Bird
* Stage Fright
* Straight Up
* Halfnelson
* New York Dolls
* We're an American Band
* Shinin' On
* War Babies
* Felix Cavaliere
* L
* Bat Out of Hell
* Remote Control
* TRB Two
* Wave
* Wasp
* Bad for Good
* Forever Now
* Next Position Please
* Love Bomb
* What Is This?
* Skylarking
* Dreams of Ordinary Men
* Love Junk
* Things Here Are Different
* One Sided Story
* The World's Most Dangerous Party
* Halfway Down the Sky
* The New America
* Separation Anxieties
* Cause I Sez So

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Authority control databases |

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