Examples of use of Wire & Glass
1. Endless Wire contains 1' tracks, 10 of them comprising what Townshend calls a ‘full–length mini–opera‘ entitled Wire & Glass.
2. The album remains closely guarded at the time of going to press, but a taster for the full 1' tracks was released earlier this summer. ‘Wire & Glass‘, a long, raw single, forms part of a mini–rock opera at the heart of the album; ‘Mirror Door‘, a typically Who–sian pomp punk track, got radio airplay last June.
3. It‘s a process ... The kids in my imaginary band The Glass Household in "Wire & Glass" describe the process as breathing, exploding, imploding, climbing a stairway to a door made from a mirror, and walking through, expecting oblivion in a black hole, instead finding a slow after–show party.‘ Buy this if you like: Be Here Now by Oasis.
4. "People died when I performed," he sings as if he still can‘t believe it (11 fans were crushed to death before a 1'7' Who concert). Much of "Wire & Glass" feels like little more than a disjointed selection of song fragments, but it nonetheless throbs with the drive, the struggle, that always characterized the Who.