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Pete Townshend - Pete Townshend: Empty Glass : ATCO SD32-100 1980. Pete Townshend: Empty Glass: ATCO SD32-100 1980 Cond: Used condition with signs of handling and wear consistent for age and usage.  This album cover has been edge-clipped. Please observe photos carefully. Wiki Note: Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is co-founder, leader, guitarist, secondary lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Townshend has written more than 100 songs for 12 of the Who's studio albums. Empty Glass is the second solo studio album by English rock musician Pete Townshend, and his first composed of original material, released on 21 April 1980 by Atco Records. The album deals with issues that Townshend was struggling with at the time, including alcoholism, drug abuse, marital problems, and deceased friends, particularly Keith Moon, the Who's former drummer, who died in 1978. Empty Glass also contained the devotional love song, ”Let My Love Open the Door”, which became a Top 10 hit in the US, and the singles ”Rough Boys”   and ”A Little Is Enough” .  The album was rated No. 57 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest of the 1980s. A Gibson poll rated it at No. 5 among ”the greatest albums released by an artist who was previously in a successful band”.