WCSX Classic Cuts : Let My Love Open the Door

WCSX Classic Cuts

Pete Townshend: "Let My Love Open the Door"

The Hook: The value of friendship.

Album: Empty Glass

Year: 1980

Writer: Pete Townshend

Stats: Peaked at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100

Background: "Let My Love Open the Door" is the most successful solo single of Pete Townshend's career. He explains what he had in mind when he wrote it.

Pete Townshend on what he was trying to say in “Let My Love Open the Door.” OC:…about that. :20

“It’s about letting the person who knows you best open your heart, rather than trying to search in the great, wide world for – you know, it’s like they say about the value of friendship, if you’ve got a problem, don’t go to an analyst first, go to your friends first and then if they can’t help you then go to an analyst. It’s about that.”