Peter Frampton Reveals the Feat That ‘Scared the S— out of’ Him

Peter Frampton has revealed the spectacular profession achievement that “scared the shit out of” him.

It was 1976 when Frampton lastly broke by means of as a solo success on the again of his electrifying reside double album, Frampton Comes Alive. During a current look on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, the guitarist recalled conversations along with his supervisor, Dee Anthony, which passed off as Comes Alive was climbing the charts.

“Dee made two phone calls to me,” Frampton defined. “One, I was totally ecstatic about and the second one scared the shit out of me.”

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The first, joyous second got here when the supervisor informed Frampton his album had reached No. 1. “Then it seemed like the next day — but I’m sure it was a couple of months later — he called me again and said, you’ve just broken Carol King’s Tapestry sales record. You’re now the biggest ever selling record in America and Canada.”

While most artists can be over the moon to listen to such information, Frampton’s response was fairly totally different.

“The pit of my stomach just fell out,” the rocker admitted. “I didn’t want to know that. I didn’t want to be the biggest. I would have preferred it was at number two. I’d have preferred that it didn’t sell as much as Tapestry because now the spotlight is on me. Like myself, I’m putting the spotlight on me. It’s now made it so much more difficult to come up with another album. I did not want to.”

Frampton Went Against His Gut on Follow-up Album

Frampton was pressured to shortly launch one other album to capitalize on the success of Comes Alive. Conversely, the rocker needed to take his time and create one thing he was happy with.

“The Eagles don’t dash into the studio every five minutes,” Frampton famous. “They’ve had a handful of studio records as opposed to what you think they’ve had, but they don’t go near the studio until they’ve got you know, ten number one hits because the reason is they can’t stand each other, so they better have some good music to go in there.”

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“I went against my gut,” Frampton continued, explaining why he caved to strain and launched I’m in You in 1977. The LP initially bought nicely earlier than cratering. “It [was] horrible,” the guitarist admitted, although not sudden. “I’ve got to be honest: It’s not as if I didn’t know that was going to happen, because I didn’t like what I just put out.”