Peter Frampton was once the biggest rock star on the planet. Now his survival story is getting the documentary treatment.
In 1976, Frampton's concert album Frampton Comes Alive! dominated the Billboard charts for 10 weeks straight, outselling Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones, and Wings combined. He was untouchable. But what goes up must come down.
The crash was brutal. Within just over a decade, his recording career had flatlined, and Frampton found himself as a backing musician for David Bowie.
The new doc Frampton, directed by his longtime bandleader Rob Arthur, shows how he returned to relevance as a major live draw throughout the 1990s and continues performing today — even while battling the muscle-wasting disease Inclusion Body Myositis.
The documentary premieres June 4 at the Tribeca Festival. The lineup of talking heads includes Tom Morello, Kate Hudson, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Bill Wyman, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, and Nancy Wilson.
Cameron Crowe sums it up in the trailer: "He was the guy going on the rocket where no other rocket had gone. This is the peak of rock, right here."
It's a rock & roll comeback story coming to screens in days.
