Peter appears on the album, performing Beatles' tunes alongside people like George Burns. The soundtrack was successful though, it reached #5 on the US album chart and went Platinum.
The movie was not received well, although it did give Peter another Rolling Stone magazine cover appearance. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, alongside The Bee Gees. In 1978 Peter appeared in the movie version of The Beatles' Sgt. A version of Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" was a single success that reached #18 in 1977. Guest musicians lined up to help out included Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder. Although he would have preferred a long break from the non-stop hubbub, Peter nonetheless returned to the studio and released "I'm In You" in 1977, seeing the album and same-titled single reach Platinum and #1 respectively.
The subsequent years were a challenge, both musically and personally. By the end of '76, Peter had reportedly earned an estimated gross of $70 million in concert fees and royalties. He was named Rolling Stone magazine's Artist Of the Year in 1976 and received innumerable industry plaudits for album and concert sales. The resulting publicity and multi-million-dollar grossing tour made Peter Frampton an international superstar. Quite why the record was so successful has perplexed many Rock critics. The record became the biggest-selling live album in history and sold over sixteen million copies. It also reached number six on the UK album chart. chart and stayed on top for a total of ten weeks, in four visits during a record-breaking two-year stay. The concert was recorded, and the album went from a single album to a double when one of the record label's bosses, Jerry Moss (the 'M' in A&M Records) said "Where's the rest?" The extra tracks put on to make it a double album included Peter's three biggest hits, "Show Me The Way (#6 in 1976), "Baby I Love Your Way" (#12 in 1976), and "Do You Feel Like We Do" (#10 in 1976). The album went to #32 in the US charts, and went Gold.Īll this culminated in the astonishing success of "Frampton Comes Alive!", a live album recorded at San Francisco's famed Winterland, and released in 1976. Peter's live work did much to enhance his reputation and eventually the hard work paid off with the release in 1975 of "Frampton", which gave the world a taste of what was yet to come. "Wind Of Change" in 1971, "Frampton's Camel" in 1973, which featured Peter within a group project, and "Somethin's Happening" in 1974.
Signed to A&M, his first three albums were building the foundations of a solid fan base. The next five years were a period of writing, recording and touring, as well as guesting on many other artists' records, including Nilsson and George Harrison. After five albums with Humble Pie, he went solo in 1971, just in time to see "Rockin' The Fillmore" race up the US charts. He was well on his way.īy 1969, Frampton had formed Humble Pie with ex-Small Faces singer/guitarist Steve Marriott. Peter was named The Face 0f 1968 by the UK press. By sixteen, Peter had been recruited to be the lead guitarist/singer in The Herd, scoring a handful of British teenybopper hits. At the age of eleven, Peter was playing with a band called The Trubeats, before joining a group called The Preachers, produced and managed by Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. In fact, Peter and David would spend time together at lunch breaks, playing Buddy Holly songs. By the age of ten, Frampton was playing in a band called The Little Ravens and performed on the same bill at school as George & The Dragons, a group that included David Bowie, then a student of Peter's art teacher/dad, Owen Frampton. Teaching himself to play, he became near obsessed, and upon receiving a guitar from his parents, mastered that as well. Born in Beckenham, England, on April 22, 1950, Peter first became interested in music as a seven-year old when he discovered his grandmother's banjolele (a banjo-shaped ukulele) in the attic.