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Utopia

Band, 1973-1986 US
Rock

US American rock band formed in 1973 by Todd Rundgren. During its first three years, the group was a progressive rock band with a somewhat fluid membership known as Todd Rundgren's Utopia. Most of the members in this early incarnation also played on Rundgren's solo albums of the period up to 1975. By 1976, the group was known simply as Utopia and was a stable quartet of Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and John "Willie" Wilcox. This version of the group gradually abandoned prog-rock for straightforward rock and pop. In 1980, they had a top 40 hit with "Set Me Free". Though often thought of as a Rundgren-oriented project, all four members of Utopia wrote, sang, produced and performed on their albums; "Set Me Free", for example, was sung by Sulton. The group broke up in 1986, but reunited briefly in 1992. More recently, beginning in 2011 the earlier prog-rock incarnation known as Todd Rundgren's Utopia was revived for a series of live shows.

Members

	Todd Rundgren voc, g *1948 US
	Ralph Schuckett key, voc, org, p *1948 US
	Kasim Sulton voc, b *1955 US
	Roger Powell voc, key, syn *1949
	John Siegler b, voc
	Kevin Ellman dr, perc
	John Wilcox dr, voc US
	Jean-Yves Labat fl, sax, key, voc
	Mark Klingman voc