Jacob Bielecki at Quillette:
In 1976, Peter Frampton was a guitar player who was respected among his more popular peers despite having enjoyed no commercial success. He had only a small following in his native Britain and in a couple of American cities—and then with lightning speed, he became the biggest star on the planet. The live album Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) brought him fame and commercial success, but, as he was later to recall in his 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, “What goes up must come down. Looking back, my fall from grace was almost predetermined.”
In 1971, his band Humble Pie was on the verge of breaking into the American mainstream after finding early success in the United Kingdom. Humble Pie had been formed two years earlier by Frampton and Steve Marriott, the singer and lead guitar player with The Small Faces. Frampton met Marriott when his band The Herd opened for The Small Faces during the latter’s residency at The Marquee Club in London and the two young men bonded over the dissatisfaction they felt about their respective bands.
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