Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! (40th anniversary)

Today (January 6th) marks the fortieth anniversary of Peter Frampton's double-disk live album Frampton Comes Alive!. This landmark record spent a total of ninety-seven weeks on the US Billboard Album chart, ten weeks of that were spent at the number 1 spot.

For my full album review, click here.

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Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday.

After four solo albums with marginal sales and chart success, Peter Frampton released a double-disk live record that finally hit the mark. Frampton Comes Alive! went to number 6 on the UK charts and number 1 in Canada. In the US the album spent ten weeks (ten percent of its incredible 97 weeks on the US Billboard Album chart) at the number 1 spot and was certified multi-Platinum. Of course, it helped that the record company reduced the price on its release to $7.98, only a dollar more than the standard price of $6.98 that most single disk albums went for in 1976. Who couldn’t resist a bargain, especially during those tight economic times? As no surprise, Rolling Stone magazine’s readers voted it the “Album of the Year”.