Peter Frampton says he likes “the challenge” of playing guitar as his neuromuscular disease gets worse
Back in 2019, guitar legend Peter Frampton revealed he’d been diagnosed with inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive degenerative muscle disease which has since affected his ability to play guitar.
IBM causes gradual muscle deterioration in the arms and legs, and has forced Frampton to rethink the way he plays guitar. But despite his condition, the guitarist remains infectiously optimistic, and even says he enjoys the “challenge”.
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“I can’t complain about my life at all,” he tells People in a new interview. “Yes, it’s not the most pleasant thing to have. It changes your life. It’s not going to end it, but yeah, it’s a little difficult. But really I’ve gotten used to it, and I like the challenge of being able to do what I do as it progresses.”
After revealing his diagnosis years ago, Peter Frampton announced a farewell tour, anticipating that the disease would render him unable to hit the road any longer. But he continues to tour even now in 2026. And he’s still recording new material, too, having just released his latest album Carry the Light last month.
“I’ve always been very positive,” he continues. “My parents were like that, especially my mother. My feeling about my IBM muscle disease is that I have been dealt some wonderful cards in my life, and life is life and you get some trials and tribulations along the way.”
Indeed, Frampton’s optimism and determination in the face of his disease is nothing short of inspiring.
“People say, ‘Oh, you must be so upset,’ and, yeah, I am,” he recently admitted. “But you can fix the little things.
“But big things never worried me, because the big things you can’t do anything about. If I don’t accept what I have. I’m going to be mad for the rest of my life.”
Listen to Peter Frampton’s new album Carry the Light below:
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