Ringo Starr at the Ryman - 20. Love is the Answer (Todd Rundgren)

July 7th 2012. “Love Is the Answer“ is a song written by Todd Rundgren for his band Utopia. It is the closing track on their 1977 album Oops! Wrong Planet. Although Utopia’s version did not reach the music charts, a cover version by England Dan & John Ford Coley reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May, 1979 and spent two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart. John Ford Coley was quoted as saying: “Of all the songs we released as singles, that was my favorite. The song