“I was scared to death with the situation I was in”: Peter Frampton explains why the incredible success of Frampton Comes Alive was the “scariest thing”
Peter Frampton had already tasted success across his time with Humble Pie, but when he released his revered live album in 1976, Frampton Comes Alive!, a whole new wave of pressure overcame him.
Frampton, who is now 76, has just released a documentary all about his ups and downs with fame, and has been reflecting on the fears that came along with such triumph. He recalls being treated like “a commodity”, and the pressures of following it up with another record of the same success.
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He tells People, “I’ve never been driven by money, only by music and the playing of it. Unfortunately, there was at least one [person], maybe more, that saw me as the golden goose and stopped caring about me and treated me more like a commodity, ‘He’ll do this, he’ll do that.’ I was scared to death with the situation I was in.”
He adds, “When we became the biggest album of all time in America and Canada, that was the scariest thing for me, because it took me six years to write those songs. I’m a perfectionist, and that’s why I wasn’t thrilled with following up the live album at all.”
Frampton ended up following the record with 1977’s I’m In You, which was well received: “I didn’t want to make that album then… [but] I thought, ‘Well, all these people that are advising me, they know much more. They’ve all had big acts.’ And then I suddenly thought, ‘Not as big as me.’ So that’s when I started taking control.”
The pressures didn’t fade, leading to other struggles in Frampton’s life, including a serious car accident in 1978. Fastforward to the present day, Frampton has released his first body of new material in 16 years with the launch of new album Carry The Light last May.
Watch the trailer for his new documentary below:
Find out more about Peter Frampton and his new record via his official website.
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