Deface the Music

Deface the Music is the fifth studio album by American rock band Utopia, released on September 24, 1980 by Bearsville Records. 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 recorded by Utopia 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.^[4] In addition to the cover art being a direct homage to With the Beatles, the original pressing was made to look like an early 1960s 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.

ReleasedSeptember 24, 1980

StudioUtopia Sound (Lake Hill)

Genre

• Pop rock
• power pop

Length32:06

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Deface the Music
Studio album by Utopia
Released	September 24, 1980
Studio	Utopia Sound (Lake Hill)
Genre	Pop rock power pop
Length	32:06
Label	Bearsville
Producer	Todd Rundgren Utopia
Utopia chronology
Adventures in Utopia (1979) Deface the Music (1980) Swing to the Right (1982)
Singles from Deface The Music
"I Just Want To Touch You" Released: November 1980 "Alone" Released: 1981 (Spain only)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Billboard	(positive)[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

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