Does He Feel Like We Do?

Happy birthday, Peter Frampton.  Before he went solo, he played in several bands, most notably Humble Pie.  Once on his own, he recorded three studio albums that went nowhere.  His fourth album, Frampton (took him four tries to come up with that title) showed a little life on the charts, and had some nice numbers.



Then in 1976 he released Frampton Comes Alive!, a double live album.  It was just his old stuff, but for some reason, it struck a chord and become one of the biggest-selling albums of the era.

So big he could never live up to it.  His next album, I'm In You, went platinum on the heat from his live album.  The next one, Where I Should Be, only gold.  The rest didn't make the top forty, and usually not the top 100.