In January 1976, Peter Frampton released what would become one of the biggest rock albums of all time. The double disc Frampton Come Alive! hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and stayed at the top of the charts for 10 weeks in 1976.
The live album, recorded at concert venues in California and New York, spawned the hits “Show Me the Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” and “Do You Feel (Like We Do).” The latter song featured Frampton’s groundbreaking use of a talk box.
But success wasn’t easy for the former Humble Pie frontman.
In an interview with Billboard, Frampton, now 75, recalled that while everyone was telling him how “great” the album’s success was, he was thinking, “Yeah… but I’ve got tomorrow to deal with."
“Hell, I’ve got to do a studio record to follow this up. And in my mind, I’m not proven in the studio, like I am now. I’m stamped ‘The Live Guy,’” he added. “So I felt like I had lost before I started the next part of my career. Before, there was nothing to compete with. Now, I felt, I’m competing with Peter Frampton.”
“That was probably the least favorite period of my life,” he added.
Frampton noted that “the pressure was so great” following Frampton Comes Alive! that there was “absolutely no need” to do the follow-up studio album, I’m in You, so soon after.
“The biggest mistake was just not shutting down at that point,” the rock legend said. “I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about Comes Alive! I didn’t need to go and rush into something else.”
Frampton did rush into recording I’m In You. The follow-up album dropped in June 1977 while Frampton Comes Alive! was still charting. While I’m in You was a success, in a 2025 interview, Frampton revealed that he wasn’t a huge fan of the album, which featured his first-ever studio hit.
Speaking on The Art of Music, Frampton admitted he got “scared” when he was told Frampton Comes Alive! was “the biggest record ever... because, you know, that you've got to follow it up.”
“So, yeah, it was a very difficult period for me," Frampton added. “You're only as good as your last record, and I should not never have made any other records. I should have just [said], ‘That's it!’"
“After the I’m in You record came out — which I didn't want to make, let alone release — I realized that it was time to take stock, and a lot of things happened there,” he said. “Money was going astray by the hundreds of thousands. And so I needed to sort all that out. And that's when I sort of stopped working and basically just started writing on my own and getting ready for something that was to come.”
Fifty years later, Frampton will celebrate the milestone anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! With a new album, Carry the Light, composed with his son, Julian.
The new studio album will be released on April 10, 2026, a date which marks the 50th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200, per Mix Online.
In an interview with WIVB, the rocker said, “I have no expectations of it doing anything, but Julian and I love it, so that’s all that matters.”
“I enjoy the creative process more now than I ever did,” Frampton added. “It was always like a pain before, but now it’s — I don’t have to do anything, which is so great. And I should’ve thought about that back then, but the pressure was on.”
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