“Let My Love Open The Door” by Pete Townshend

"Let My Love Open the Door" is the sunniest thing on Empty Glass, Pete Townshend's third solo album, from 1980. He wrote it, sang it and played both the guitar and the synthesizer himself, with Chris Thomas producing and a crew of John "Rabbit" Bundrick on keyboards, Tony Butler on bass, Simon Phillips on drums and Peter Hope-Evans on harmonica. Years later Townshend explained that the voice in the song belongs to Jesus, which turns an apparent love song into an open-armed promise.

America got it as the album's opening single and sent it to No. 9 on the Hot 100, with Canada going as high as No. 5; Record World had predicted pop radio would catch on to what AOR already knew. In Britain it came out second and stalled at number 46.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.