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13 June 1975, Peter Frampton played the first of two nights at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Recordings from these two shows were used as part of his No.1 double album ‘Frampton Comes Alive’. It became the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US and Frampton Comes Alive! was […]
5th June 1947, born on this day, English musician and songwriter Tom Evans, from Badfinger, who scored the 1970 UK No.4 and US No.7 single ‘Come And Get It’. In November 1969, the Iveys changed their name to Badfinger, and Paul McCartney gave the group a boost by offering them his song ‘Come and Get […]
31 May 1986, Peter Gabriel scored his second solo UK No.1 album with ‘So’ featuring the singles ‘Sledgehammer’ and a duet with Kate Bush ‘Don’t Give Up’. The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions. https://youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (HD version) Read the full […]
Original KISS members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss reunited on stage last night (Friday, May 27) at this year’s Creatures Fest at Nashville’s Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel. The two legendary rockers performed two early KISS classics during Frehley‘s set, “Hard Luck Woman” and “Strange Ways”, both featuring Criss on lead vocals. Back in March, Creatures Fest promoter Neil Davis said that Criss and Frehley were “excited” about performing together at Creatures Fest. “They talked, and they just thought that what […]
Happy 72nd birthday to Peter Frampton, born 22 April 1950, who with The Herd, had the 1968 UK No.5 single ‘I Don’t Want Our Loving To Die’, with Humble Pie, the 1969 UK No.4 single ‘Natural Born Bugie’. As a solo artists he scored the 1976 UK No.10 single ‘Show Me The Way’ taken from […]
Four new books we have on pre-order: Peter Green – Founder of Fleetwood Mac, Thin Lizzy – A People’s History, David Bowie – Odyssey 72 and Jethro Tull – Lend Me Your Ears. More info here: https://thisdayinmusicbooks.com/ Read the full article at The Day InMusic!: https://www.facebook.com/19706525166/posts/10166078704110167
10 April 1976, Peter Frampton went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Frampton Comes Alive’, one of the biggest selling ‘live’ albums in rock history. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US. Frampton Comes Alive! was voted Album of the year in the 1976 Rolling […]