Deface the Music

Deface the Music is the fifth studio album by the band Utopia. The concept of the album was to pay homage to the Beatles and create songs which sounded very similar to the Fab Four's tunes throughout the various stages of their career. Their song "Take It Home", replete with guitar riff, is their homage to "Day Tripper". The first track, "I Just Want to Touch You", was written by Todd Rundgren for the Roadie soundtrack. It was rejected by the movie's producers for fear of legal action because it sounded so much like the Beatles. The original pressing was made to look like an early 1960s Beatles release, with custom inner sleeve advertising their previous three albums even down to the way the vinyl was mastered with wide bands of silence between each song.

Deface the Music
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1980
StudioUtopia Sound Studios
GenrePop rock
Length32:06
LabelBearsville
ProducerTodd Rundgren and Utopia
Utopia chronology
Adventures in Utopia
(1979)
Deface the Music
(1980)
Swing to the Right
(1982)
Singles from Deface The Music
  1. "I Just Want To Touch You"
    Released: November 1980
  2. "Alone"
    Released: 1981 (Spain only)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Billboard(positive)
Rolling Stone
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