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Ad for Pete Townshend's "Empty Glass" album from Billboard magazine on May 10, 1980

1980-05-10

    Billboard magazine features a full page ad for Pete Townshend’s “Empty Glass” album

    1980-04-19

      Annie Liebovitz photographs Pete for Rolling Stone magazine. Read more about it here

      Cover of New Musical Express from April 19, 1980

      1980-04-19

        New Musical Express prints a new interview with Pete in which he discusses the possibility of a Lifehouse script to be written by Ray Bradbury.

        Cover of the June 26, 1980 Rolling Stone magazine featuring Pete Townshend on the cover

        1980-04-17

          Pete is in San Francisco at the offices of Rolling Stone magazine being interviewed by Greil Marcus. The interview would appear in the June 26, 1980 issue. You can read the interview here

          Cover of Pete Townshend's "Empty Glass" album

          1980-04-10

            Pete lands in New York City to do promotion for his solo album Empty Glass

            Cover of the March 22, 1980 issue of New Musical Express

            1980-03-22

              New Musical Express reports that Pete’s only copy of the script of Lifehouse was accidentally sent to record producer Nick Lowe instead of film director Nicholas Roeg. Lowe threw the script in the trash but it was later retrieved and returned to Pete

              1980-02-18

                Pete is back in London to play his demo tape for the assembled Who.

                1980-02-11

                  The television show “WKRP in Cincinnati” aired an episode entitled “In Concert” the plot of which was the real-life December 3, 1979 Cincinnati tragedy.

                  1980-01-08

                    Pete attends a Clash concert at Brighton Top Rank and is invited onstage by Joe Strummer.

                    Pete Townshend performing with Paul McCartney's Rockestra on December 29, 1979

                    1979-12-29

                      Pete performs as part of Paul McCartney’s Rockestra at the final night of the Concerts For Kampuchea benefit at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. He gets there way too early and ends up spending the day in a pub. By evening he is completely sloshed and refuses to put on the silver lamé jacket everyone… Read More »1979-12-29