Frampton Comes Alive vinyl by Peter Frampton - BRAND NEW sealed, FREE SHIPPING

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This 180 gram vinyl edition of Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton is new including a near-perfect sleeve (this was a promotional album from UMe, and the barcode has been scratched out).  Never been played or removed from its sleeve, it was given to me by Peter Frampton after performing on a television show I produced.  Named #41 by Rolling Stones 50 Greatest Albums of All Time, you can start your Christmas shopping early with a purchase of this vinyl for any collector, music lover or Peter Frampton fan.  FREE SHIPPING in the continental United States for the winning bid.  Please email any questions, and check out my other items!

By 1976, Peter Frampton had yet to attain the success he’d hoped for when he left Humble Pie to go solo in 1971. Up to that point, the guitarist had released four studio albums, with only 1975’s Frampton selling as many as 300,000 LPs. But the earth shifted under Frampton’s feet with the release of Frampton Comes Alive! in January 1976. The live double-album, which would achieve eight-times-platinum status, reached No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart for the week ending April 10, 1976.

“It was craziness,” Frampton told Bankrate. “It just didn’t ever seem to stop. We sold like a million copies in one week; I remember that week. Originally, it was just one single album; ‘Show Me the Way,’ ‘Baby, I Love Your Way,’ all the acoustic stuff, none of that was on there. That’s when Jerry Moss, the M of A&M Records, heard it and said, ‘Where’s the rest?’ We said, well, we didn’t want to spend too much money and we didn’t think you’d be up for a double one, and he said, ‘But I miss “Wind of Change,” I miss “Baby, I Love Your Way.” You’d better go out and record some more.’ That was the first sign that we were onto something, because he was very excited.”

Frampton’s concerts in Commack, N.Y., and Plattsburgh, N.Y., were recorded just weeks before the LP’s scheduled release. Those performances yielded the iconic versions of “Show Me the Way” and “Baby, I Love Your Way.”

“I think every artist has their moment when they just hit a brilliance that’s unexplainable,” Moss said in Billboard. “The audience and the sounds and the music sort of come together into a thrilling combination. And that album had that.”

“It was all a bit surreal, to be honest,” Frampton explained in Goldmine. “It’s something that very few people have experienced, and you can’t really put that into words. You kind of have to be there to know what that was like. Surreal is the right word. It’s almost like it’s not happening to you, and it’s happening to somebody else, because you haven’t changed, but the world has changed the way they think about you. Lots of people who didn’t know about you now know who you are, so notoriety on that level is a very strange thing [laughs].”