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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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