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1980-06-01

    The Who Anthology, a collection of Who songs in sheet music form, is published in the U.K.

    1980-05-12

      The Who are on the cover of People magazine

      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.