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"The bigger I got as a solo artist, the more we had to pay the Mob": Peter Frampton looks back over an extraordinary six-decade career

Peter Frampton has lived the rock life to its fullest, playing many parts – prodigy, teen idol, guitar hero, global superstar, forgotten man, comeback kid, survivor

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Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner, Peter Frampton and more to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

The Class of 2024 will be inducted during a ceremony held in Cleveland this October

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Guitar Legend Peter Frampton Defies Odds, Continues Performing Live

Peter Frampton defies odds and inspires with his triumphant return to the stage despite IBM diagnosis.

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“Every note I play now is so much more important, because I know one of the notes will be the last I play”: Peter Frampton is prolonging his performing career to savor his remaining playing days

The guitarist is battling a degenerative disease but says he intends to continue touring – and is reinventing his playing as a result

Guitar World

“Even in the face of adversity he still plays with complete joy and positive intent”: Andy Timmons wrote a song in tribute to Peter Frampton – then his hero ended up playing on it

After witnessing his hero play live in 2019, Timmons was inspired to write The Boy From Beckenham in honor of Frampton. Nearly four years later, Frampton joined in to complete the cut

Guitar World

“An absolutely genius video presentation”: New video for Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single reveals who played what on the 50-guitarist-strong instrumental epic

The cleverly put together clip picks apart the many pieces of the nine-minute track, putting the spotlight on the track's A-list contributors

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“What he did with it, it just brings you to tears”: Jeff Beck’s last-ever recording has been released – as Mark Knopfler’s sensational star-studded charity single finally arrives

More than 50 of the world’s finest guitar heroes have joined forces for the track, which has been recorded to raise funds for teenage cancer charities

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“Can never thank Bob enough. Rest in power my friend”: Bob Heil – the Talk Box pioneer who worked with Peter Frampton, Grateful Dead and The Who – dies aged 83

Heil is widely credited for setting the blueprint for live sound systems in rock music

Guitar World

“When people went in to look at the gear they went in on jet skis… So many people lost their guitars”: Peter Frampton says he lost 44 guitars in the 2010 Nashville flood

One of the guitars to survive the flood was Frampton's Epiphone Texan that he famously used to write Show Me The Way and Baby, I Love Your Way both on the same day

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“So many people lost their guitars. I lost 44”: Peter Frampton recalls how he lost and recovered guitars through floods and plane crashes as he shows off his eye-watering gear collection on Gibson TV

The legendary “Phenix” Les Paul, and an Epiphone salvaged from the 2010 Nashville floods and used to pen Show Me The Way headline the latest episode of Gibson’s The Collection

Guitar World

“I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches”: The first minute of Mark Knopfler’s star-studded charity single has been released – can you guess the guitar heroes from their chops?

The nine-minute extended cut contains contributions from over 50 guitar legends, and features Jeff Beck's final recording

Guitar World

Live sound and Talk Box pioneer Bob Heil has died, aged 83: “I can never thank him enough,” says Peter Frampton

Audio industry legend worked with the Grateful Dead, The Who and many others

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Peter Solley obituary

Other lives: Rock musician who played keyboards and piano, including with Procol Harum, before moving into record production

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“Eric came in, played great, just one tasty lick after another. Jeff Beck’s contribution was spellbinding”: Mark Knopfler enlists Clapton, Townshend, Iommi, Slash and dozens more for all-star charity single

Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes raise funds for teenage cancer charities with an epic version of his Local Hero theme, featuring Jeff Beck’s final recording, and over 50 guitar legends – including David Gilmour, Joan Armatrading and Brian May

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"There was this extra Dolly energy on there – and she's doing these wonderful ad libs, singing around me": Peter Frampton on Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, and sitting down onstage

Having asked to play guitar on Dolly Parton's Rockstar album, Peter Frampton also ended up singing one of his own classics on it

Guitar World

A new in-depth look at Eric Clapton in the '60s, '70s and '80s – only in the new Guitar World

Featuring brand-new Slowhand-centric interviews with Steve Lukather, Eddie Kramer, Albert Lee, Phil Palmer, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Danny Flowers, Albhy Galuten, Joe Bonamassa and more

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Roger Waters pays tribute to "The Last DJ" Jim Ladd, takes potshot at his bosses at Sirius XM

Jim Ladd, the DJ inspiration for Tom Petty's The Last DJ and the voice of Roger Waters' Radio KAOS, has died at the age 75

Guitar World

“I got a call: 'Peter Frampton needs a bass player. Can you do it?' This was Tuesday. By Friday, I was playing my first show”: Bass legend John Regan reflects on his career with Frampton and Frehley in his final interview

The Frehley's Comet bassist died in April 2023. Just three days before his untimely passing, he spoke to Bass Player about his remarkable career, including the highs and lows of working with Ace Frehley and his lifelong musical friendship with Frampton

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“My friend came to my taco stand, telling me Leslie West wanted to jam. I was like, ‘What kind of drugs are you on? I’ve never even played a club before’”: At 17, Peter Baron went from street food vendor to playing with a rock guitar icon overnight

Peter Baron spent decades touring with Leslie West. He reveals what the Mountain guitar legend taught him (and vice-versa), and the one-of-a-kind guitar quirk West got from watching Porky Pig…

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“I don’t know what it is, but something happens to Joe when he picks up the 10-string B.C. Rich Bich...”: Joe Perry tech Darren Hurst on helping the Aerosmith rock icon re-discover his tone

After five years working with Peter Frampton, Darren Hurst became Joe Perry’s tech. Here he talks the secrets behind the guitar great's sound, and why his favorite Perry guitar isn't a Les Paul or the famous “Burned Strat”...

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“Through the years I thought one day I’d do a rock record”: Dolly Parton on why she’s made an album with Paul McCartney, Rob Halford, Stevie Nicks and more

The country icon has put together an all-star line-up on her new album Rockstar

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“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album

Country star Dolly Parton cover of Free Bird also features one of the last appearances by late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

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"If you could just bear with us, we’re going to go and revive our drummer by punching him in the stomach. He’s out cold...": 5 crazy Keith Moon moments

They didn’t call The Who’s drummer Moon The Loon for nothing…

Evening Standard

Dolly Parton releases Wrecking Ball collaboration with Miley Cyrus ahead of album release

The Queen of Country's upcoming album features a string of rockstar collaborations

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Jerry Moss obituary

American record company executive who co-founded the A&M label with the trumpeter Herb Alpert

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