Frampton Comes Alive! is the story of Peter Frampton's life; success has simply dogged the guitarist/singer through band, genre, venue, and decade changes. From the Herd and Humble Pie to a Lonely Hearts Club movie role, through long ha...more Frampton Comes Alive! is the story of Peter Frampton's life; success has simply dogged the guitarist/singer through band, genre, venue, and decade changes. From the Herd and Humble Pie to a Lonely Hearts Club movie role, through long hair and short hair and on road trips, charity blitz and Walt Disney's Tigger song clips, Frampton was there when the kids were growing up in the '70s and is still popular now that they're all grown up and looking for ways to spend their money. Alive, recorded at Winterland and released in '76, was something of a watershed album: Great work, including Wind of Change and Frampton's Camel, led up to this surprise huge-seller, and efforts following Alive were measured against its success. While "Baby I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do?" were top singles and Frampton was named Rolling Stone's Artist of the Year in '76, he spent next few years financially quite comfy but artistically unsettled. David Bowie's invitation to play lead guitar on Bowie's Glass Spider World Tour in 1987 settled any issues, however, and the re-charged and re-cognized Frampton headed to LA and more laurels. A planned collaboration in the early '90s with Steve Marriott from Humble Pie came to a sad end when Marriott died in a house fire, but Alive II came out in '95 and collaborations with Bill Wyman, tours with Ringo Starr and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and 2003's Now and '06's Fingerprints have kept Frampton in the public eye....less
The Herd,
Humble Pie,
Peter Frampton's Camel
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