Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco)
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 26 April 1980
TO MOST people, it's probably always been obvious that Roger Daltrey was simply Pete Townshend's mouthpiece, the hired vocalist who put the professional gloss on the composer's rough lines.
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