{"id":31123,"date":"2026-06-19T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=31123"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:05:24","slug":"take-five-70s-guest-spots-featuring-peter-frampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/take-five-70s-guest-spots-featuring-peter-frampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Five: \u201870s Guest Spots featuring Peter Frampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitarist and singer Peter Frampton is best known for his juggernaut 1976 double album Frampton Comes Alive<\/em>. The release that sparked the mid-decade live album craze, Frampton Comes Alive<\/em> remains one of the best-selling albums \u2013 live or otherwise \u2013 in the history of recorded music. Spawning three hit singles and selling more than 8 million copies in the U.S. alone, the album was also a blockbuster in Australia, Canada and Portugal (where it reached the no. 1 spot); it top-tenned in eight other countries as well.<\/p>\n

The runaway success of Frampton Comes Alive<\/em> did have a negative side, though: it overshadows everything else that Peter Frampton had done before and since. A supremely gifted artist, Frampton has had a career worthy of widespread praise even had he never made that live record. Today he suffers from inclusion body myositis, a muscle disease that affects his ability to play. But he soldiers on, continuing to wow audiences while he can.<\/p>\n

And Frampton has an expansive body of work upon which to draw. He got his start fronting The Herd, scoring some modest success with a few singles in 1967 and \u201868 in the UK. Frampton went on to major success with Humble Pie before venturing out on his own as a solo artist. Frampton Comes Alive<\/em> was in fact his fifth<\/em> solo record. And while it\u2019s even less well-known, along the way he has lent his skills to the work of friends and fellow rockers across the musical landscape.<\/p>\n

In celebration of this year\u2019s 50th anniversary of the release of Frampton Comes Alive<\/em> (January 15, 1976) here are five recordings featuring Peter Frampton as a guest artist. (We\u2019ll skip over his playing on Frankie Valli\u2019s \u201cGrease\u201d and his contributions to the disastrous 1978 Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> soundtrack; the less said about the latter, the better).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Blues in England\u201d from Ben Sidran\u2019s Feel Your Groove<\/em> (1970)<\/strong>
\nKeyboardist with the Steve Miller Band, Ben Sidran also took part in recording sessions for other artists including the Rolling Stones. When Sidran scored a record deal of his own, he made 1970\u2019s Feel Your Groove<\/em>. His solo record featured contributions by drummer Jim Keltner, guitarists Scaggs and Jesse Ed Davis, singer Mimi Farina, and \u2013 on \u201cThe Blues in England\u201d \u2013 Stones drummer Charlie Watts and Humble Pie\u2019s Greg Ridley and Peter Frampton. (A prolific artist, Sidran would go on to release more than 30 solo albums.)<\/p>\n