Peter Frampton

At 74 years old, Peter Frampton has this physical status:

Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist.

He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and the Herd.

After the end of his 'group' career, as a solo artist, Frampton released several albums including his international breakthrough album, the live release Frampton Comes Alive!.

The album sold more than 8 million copies in the United States and spawned several hit singles.

Since then he has released several other albums.

He has also worked with Ringo Starr, David Bowie and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, among others. Frampton is best known for such hits as "Breaking All the Rules", "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", and "I'm in You", which remain staples on classic rock radio.

He has also appeared as himself in television shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Madam Secretary.

Frampton is known for his work as a guitar player, particularly with a talk box and his voice.

Early life

Peter Kenneth Frampton was born to Owen Frampton and Peggy (née ffitch) Frampton in Beckenham, Kent. He attended Bromley Technical High School, at which his father was a teacher and the head of the Art department. He first became interested in music when he was seven years old. Having discovered his grandmother's banjolele in the attic, he taught himself to play it, going on to later teach himself how to play guitar and piano as well. At the age of eight, he began taking classical music lessons.

His early influences were Cliff Richard & the Shadows (featuring guitarist Hank Marvin) and American rockers Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran and later the Ventures, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. His father introduced him to the recordings of Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

Personal life

Frampton has been married three times and has three children.

His first marriage was to Mary Lovett, from 1972 to 1976.

He was sued by Penelope J. "Penny" McCall in 1978 for palimony. McCall asked for half of Frampton's earnings during the five years that they were together. According to McCall, she left her husband and gave up her job as a rock promoter and devoted herself full-time to Frampton, just as he achieved superstar status. A New York judge ruled that Frampton and McCall never intended to marry each other and "never held themselves out to the public as husband and wife" and dismissed her complaint because to act otherwise would condone adultery. The case set precedent in New York.

From 1983 to 1993, Frampton was married to Barbara Gold, with whom he had two children named Jade and Julian. The latter co-wrote and sang on Frampton's song "Road to the Sun" from Thank You Mr. Churchill.

His third marriage was on 13 January 1996 to Tina Elfers, with whom he had a daughter, actress Mia Frampton, and a stepdaughter named Tiffany Wiest. Frampton filed for divorce from Elfers in Los Angeles, California, on 22 June 2011, citing irreconcilable differences.

In June 1978, Frampton was involved in a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas and suffered broken bones, a concussion, and muscle damage. Dealing with the pain of the accident led to a brief period of drug abuse.

Frampton has lived in London and various U.S. locations, including Westchester County, New York; Los Angeles; and Nashville, Tennessee. He moved to Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Elfers, and the city in which they were married in 1996. They chose to live there to be closer to Elfers' family. In 2014, Frampton moved back to Nashville.

Frampton cites the September 11 attacks as his reason for obtaining American citizenship, saying he wanted to begin voting in U.S. elections.

He is a vegetarian.

On 20 October 2020, Frampton published his memoir Do You Feel Like I Do?, co-written with Alan Light.

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Music career

Frampton, a 12-year-old boy, was a member of the Little Ravens, a fan club. Both he and David Bowie, who was three years old at Bromley Technical School, where Frampton's father was Bowie's art instructor. The Little Ravens, Bowie's band, George and the Dragons, all played on the same bill at school. Peter and David will spend lunch breaks together, jaming Buddy Holly songs.

Peter was 14 years old when he was playing with the Trubeats and Preachers, who later became Moon's Train and was directed by Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones.

He became a well-known child actor, and the Herd became a member of the Herd in 1966. He was the lead guitarist and singer on several British pop hits. Frampton was dubbed "the Face of 1968" by teen magazine Rave.

When Frampton was 18 years old, he joined Small Faces' Steve Marriott to create Humble Pie.

Frampton did session recording with other musicians, including Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes in 1972 when performing with Humble Pie. Pete Drake introduced him to the "talk box" that was going to be one of his signature guitar effects.

Frampton left the band and went solo in 1971, just in time to see Rockin's Fillmore debut the US charts. He remained with Dee Anthony (1926-2009), the same personal manager that Humble Pie had used.

Wind of Change, 1972, was his first appearance, with guest artists Ringo Starr and Billy Preston. Frampton's Camel, which featured Frampton as part of a group project, was followed on this album by Frampton's Camel in 1973. Somethin's Happening, Frampton, appeared in 1974. Frampton performed extensively for his solo career, joined on keyboards by his late Herd mate Andy Bown, Rick Wills on bass, and American drummer John Siomos. The Frampton album was first released in 1975. The album debuted at No. 1, which was a no. 1 hit. The RIAA has rated 32 in the United States charts and has been rated Gold by the RIAA.

Peter Frampton's early albums had no commercial success. This was changed on Frampton Comes Alive, Frampton's best-selling live album, "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way," and an edited version of "Do You Feel Like We Do." His use of the talk box guitar effect was also present in the previous two tracks. The album was released in 1975, mainly at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, where Humble Pie had a loyal following. Frampton's new line-up included American Bob Mayo on keyboards and drums, and Stanley Sheldon on bass. Wills had been fired by Frampton at the age of 1974, and Bown had been left on the eve of Frampton Comes Alive to return to England and new fame with Status Quo. Frampton Comes Alive was announced in early January and debuted on the charts in February at number 191. The album had been on the Billboard 200 for 97 weeks, of which 55 were in the top 40, of which 10 were at the top. The album debuted as the top selling album of 1976, surpassing Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac to be among others, and it was also the 14th best seller of 1977. In 1977, Frampton received a Juno Award.

Readers of Rolling Stone rated Frampton Comes Alive No. 10 in honor of the album's tenacity. In a 2012 survey of all-time favorite live albums, there are three of them. "He was loved by teenage girls and their older brothers," the article's text said. Like no one else in rock, he owned the year 1976.'

The success of Frampton Comes Alive!

In a famous shirtless photograph by Francesco Scavullo, put him on the cover of Rolling Stone. Frampton later said he regretted the photograph because it turned his image as a credible artist into a teen idol.

In late 1976, he and his chief, Dee Anthony, attended the White House at the invitation of Steven Ford, the president's son.

Frampton was honoured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979 for his contributions to the recording industry on August 24, 1979.

Frampton's upcoming album, "I'm in You (1977), contained the hit title single and went platinum, but it fell short of expectations when compared to Frampton Comes Alive!

In producer Robert Stigwood's poorly received film Sgt, he appeared with the Bee Gees. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). Frampton's career seemed to be ending as quickly as it had risen. He also played guitar on the title song of 1978's Grease, a song that was subsequently written for the film by Barry Gibb.

Frampton was involved in a near-fatal car crash in the Bahamas in 1978 that marked the end of his prolific period and the start of a long fallow period in which he was less popular than before. In 1979, he returned to the studio to record the album Where I Should Be. Stanley Sheldon (bass), Bob Mayo (keyboards/vocals), and John Siomos (drums/vocals) were among those contributing to the album.

Rise Up was released in 1980 to promote his tour in Brazil, but he suffered yet another setback this year when all of his guitars were thought to have been destroyed in a freight plane crash that killed four people. He lost the black Les Paul Custom, which he had dubbed "Phenix" on the back of his album cover and first used on the night of the Humble Pie live album Performance, and which he had used all through his early solo careers. In December 2011, the guitar was recovered and returned to him. The album eventually became Breaking All the Rules, which was released the next year. These albums were the first time he recorded almost entirely live. Frampton attempted to break his relationship with A&M Records in 1982, but he re-signed with the label in 2006 and released his Grammy Award-winning Fingerprints.

Despite the fact that his albums generally received no commercial success, Frampton maintained his fame into the 1980s. He did, however, have a brief, modest comeback of sorts in 1986 with the introduction of his Premonition album and the single "Lying," which became a big hit on the Mainstream Rock charts. Rather than being reunited with old pal David Bowie, he and his colleague David Bowie joined together to produce albums together, and the two of them worked together to produce albums. Frampton appeared on Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down, sang and appeared on the accompanying Glass Spider Tour. Frampton will be credited with helping with his return to work in 2013.

After touring with Bowie, Frampton, and Steve Marriott, I'm sure he'd remembered him at some shows (Marriott's last English gigs) at the Half Moon in Putney, London, looking for the band experience. The chemistry remained strong for a long time as Frampton and Marriott laid down some tracks in Los Angeles and were planning to do a "Frampton-Marriott" tour. However, Marriott returned to England in April and died in a house fire less than 24 hours after returning. Frampton, who had been mourned since Marriott's death, went off the road for a while, then reformed his old touring band with his old friends Bob Mayo and John Regan. At least three songs, as well as a fourth from the end of Marriott-Frampton's collaboration, were subsequently released; two of them ended up on Frampton's "Shine On" compilation, another on his subsequent solo album.

In the late 1990s, he appeared in an infomercial promoting the internationally popular eMedia Guitar Method, a piece of instructional software that was promoted as an alternative to taking actual guitar lessons. In an infomercial, he said that the application was the best way to learn guitar.

Frampton produced and released Peter Frampton in 1994, the final version of which contained material shot on Tascam cassette recorders. This album was re-released by Legacy Records in 2000, with four bonus tracks and additional notes by Peter, who was originally released on the Relativity label.

Frampton Comes Alive was released in 1995. II, which featured live versions of many of the songs from his 1980s and 1990s solo albums.

Frampton Comes Alive!

On June 15, 1995, II was recorded at The Fillmore Theater. Despite a lot of publicity surrounding the album, it did not do well.

After Frampton Comes Alive!

He recorded and toured with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and Ringo Starr's All Starr Band, II, where he and Jack Bruce performed a cover version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love."

Frampton released the album Now in 2003 and went on tour with Styx to promote it. In 2004, he lost a good friend and longtime bandmate Bob Mayo. He appeared on various television shows including Chris Jericho of WWE fame, and also appeared on the Elms in 2006. They were the first two people to vote out.

Frampton's Fingerprints, an instrumental piece, was published on September 12, 2006. drummer Shawn Fichter, guitarist Audley Freed, bassist John Regan, Frampton's lifelong best friend), keyboardist Rob Arthur, and Frampton Comes Alive! Stanley Sheldon – the only member of the backing band on that album is still alive.

Fingerprints was named the 2007 Grammy Prize for Best Pop Instrumental Album on February 11, 2007. He appeared on the Chicago-based PBS television show Soundstage in February 2007.

On April 27, 2010, Frampton's Thank You Mr. Churchill, his 14th studio album, was released. Yes, an English band, began touring North America in summer 2010; the two bands had appeared on bill together in 1976, but not insisted on a bill. Rob Arthur's 2010 band consisted of: Rob Arthur (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), John Regan (bass), Adam Lester (guitar), and Dan Wojciechowski (drums).

He began touring the United Kingdom in March 2011 in favor of his latest album, including Leamington Spa, Glasgow, Manchester, London, and Bristol.

Frampton came Alive's 35th Anniversary Tour in 2011, which showcased and followed exactly the songs on the play list for the original tour, which was recorded for the iconic Frampton Comes Alive tour in 1976. Each night, the audience goes wild with the pre-recorded thump of a microphone being turned on, familiar to many San Francisco devotees, as well as Jerry Pompili's recording saying, "If there was ever a musician that was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. Peter Frampton..." Between 15 June 2011 and October 22, 2011, he appeared at 69 venues around the United States.

Frampton hosted "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV on June 11, 2011. Nic Harcourt, the show's program director, was interviewed on the program.

He appeared in various parts of North America in 2013 as part of the "Frampton's Guitar Circus" tour, which featured regular guest performers, including B.B. King, Robert Cray, Don Felder, Rick Derringer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Davy Knowles, Davy Knowles, Roger McGuinn, Vinnie Moore, Vinnie Moore, and Vinnie Moore.

Frampton was one of many musicians to perform in The Night That Changed America on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' debut on American television on February 9, 2014.

Frampton unveiled a new album titled Hummingbird in a Box on June 23, 2014.

Frampton launched his new studio album, Acoustic Classics, on June 11, 2015, and on January 14, 2016, he performed the first song, a version of "Do You Feel Like I Do."

Frampton was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016.

Frampton opened the show in 2017 and 2018.

Frampton revealed on February 22nd, 2019 that he would be retiring from touring with his 'Peter Frampton Finale — The Farewell Tour,' which will debut in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on June 18th and ending in Concord, California, on October 22. On the West Coast, special guest Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as Peter's son Julian Frampton's on the West Coast, are included in the tour. He also explained the reason for the farewell tour; he has since been diagnosed with inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, vulnerability, and atrophy (wasting). Every ticket sold on the tour has been donated to benefit Frampton's newly established myositis research fund in Johns Hopkins, where he is being treated.

All Blues' most recent album, released in June 2019, debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.

Frampton announced in December 2019 that his farewell UK tour would consist of five shows in May 2020. "Due to the COVID-19 virus," the UK/EU tour was postponed in April.

Frampton came out of retirement for one night to appear at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Lubbock, Texas, on August 6, 2022.

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