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1 de sept. de 2023 · Empty Glass (1980) was Pete Townshend’s second solo album, but his first to consist of songs he recorded with an eye toward official release under his own name. The album that preceded it, Who Came First (1972), included demos of songs recorded with The Who, tracks Townshend wrote in tribute to his spiritual advisor, Meher Baba, and one tune each by Billy Nicholls and Ronnie Lane, who were ...
10 de jun. de 2021 · Empty Glass was officially released on April 21, 1980, which was a Monday; of course, I didn’t know that, but when I turned on the radio and heard, “Here’s a new single from Pete Townshend” and bounced off the walls, I knew it was out. It had not previously occurred to me that I could have just waited for this to happen, but also, there ...
16 de feb. de 2007 · Elsewhere, Townshend returns to the spiritual concerns that dominated his 1972 Who Came First solo debut, notably on "And I Moved" and "Let My Love Open the Door," Empty Glass 's hit single. Musically, Townshend resurrects the rhythmic synthesizer patterns he concocted for Who's Next while also drawing on the drive of those punks whose devotion and contempt he so openly pines for.
23 de may. de 2024 · A late-70s blitz of punk, personal problems and tragedy forced The Who’s Pete Townshend to reassess his life and career. One of the results was his solo masterpiece Empty Glass. In early 1977, Keith Moon took Pete Townshend to see Generation X at the Marquee Club. “It was my first punk concert,” Townshend recalled in 2019.
21 de abr. de 2020 · Pete Townshend Empty Glass Magazine Ad, 1980. Although a true solo album from The Who’s wunderkind might have been eagerly anticipated at the time, Empty Glass– Pete Townshend’s first fully fleshed out album outside the boundaries of his band–still begs the question of why he didn’t opt to record these songs with the Who. After all, Face Dances, the album the group released shortly ...
Empty Glass, an Album by Pete Townshend. Released 21 April 1980 on ATCO (catalog no. SD 32-100; Vinyl LP). Genres: Pop Rock, Singer-Songwriter. Rated #143 in the best albums of 1980.
