Peter Frampton Comes Alive

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Rock legend Peter Frampton talks about the making of that seminal rock album Frampton Comes Alive! and the story of his famous guitar that he nicknamed "The Phoenix." He recalls learning to play guitar by ear when he was a boy, growing up with another future rock legend David Bowie, and what it was like to be in high school during the day and perform in a rock band at night. He tells the story of the time he barely escaped Noriega’s Panama with his life, how he took the the news of the death of hi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:45.0	Peter Frampton is among the most celebrated guitarists in rock history.
3:49.0	His 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive remains one of the top selling live records of all time.
3:55.0	Co-founded one of the first super groups, the Seminole Rock Act Humble Pie,
4:00.0	and he's collaborated with such legends as George Harrison, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Wyman, and Ringo Starr among many others.
4:08.0	In 2007, he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album for Fingerprints, and in 2014, he was inducted into the musician's Hall of Fame.
4:18.0	Frampton is toured with the likes of Stevie Nicks, Greg Alman, Leonard Skinnerd, Chief Trick, Steve Miller Band, and many others.
4:25.0	Frampton's latest release, All Blues, was number one for 15 weeks on Billboard's Blues Album Chart.
4:32.0	He has voiced himself on The Simpsons and Family Guy, and he's appeared on the co-bear report, Madam Secretary, and Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous,
4:41.0	for which he also served as an advisor and wrote songs.
4:45.0	Now he's written about all of this in his new book. Do you feel like I do? A memoir? Peter Frampton, welcome.
4:52.0	Thanks so much.
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