If the producers of 1970s TV series Black Sheep Squadron (formerly entitled Baa Baa Black Sheep) were looking for guest stars, Peter Frampton probably wasn't at the top of the list. It was a show about a squadron of misfit American WWII fighter pilots based in the Solomon Islands, and Frampton was English. He also had long hair, and if we know anything about the grooming habits of soldiers, it's that short hair was enforced.
But on April 6, 1978, Frampton appeared on the show's final episode, resplendent in uniform, with his hair very much in need of a trim. If anything, it was no shorter than the shoulder-troubling trusses that adorned the cover of his breakthrough live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, released two years previously.
