Influenced by Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Peter Frampton’s first band was called The Little Ravens. He attended Bromley Technical School with fellow pupil and soon to be music great David Bowie. Frampton’s band and Bowie’s band, George and the Dragons, were formed at roughly the same time however the two would get together at lunch and play Buddy Holly songs. At age 11 he joined Bill Wyman’s The Trubeats and then The Preachers. By 1966, Frampton was the lead guitarist and singer of The Herd who produced a bunch of teenybopper hits.
Then when he was 18, he teamed up with Steve Marriot and formed Humble Pie. Humble Pie recorded with artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Price, and George Harrison. During the Harrison session, Frampton discovered the “talkbox” and its “waa-waa” sound became Frampton's signature. Humble Pie released five albums before they lost Frampton. His albums did all right but when he released
Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976, he broke through to rock history. The singles off it included: “Do You Feel Like We Do”, “Baby, I Love Your Way”, and “Show Me the Way”.
Frampton Comes Alive! made a comfortable home for itself on the Billboard Top 40 chart for 55 weeks and the Top 200 chart for 97 weeks. The best-selling album of 1976, it is also the fourth best selling live album of all time, beat out by Garth Brooks’ Double Live, Bruce Springsteen’s Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band Live 1975-’85, and The Eagles, Eagles Live.
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