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Musician who made one of the best-selling live albums and worked with David Bowie announced a farewell tour.
Peter Frampton, the singer and guitarist whose album 'Frampton Comes Alive' is one of the best-selling concert albums, has been diagnosed with degenerative muscular disease.
Frampton revealed that he had an inclusion body myositis (IBM). It is an illness that prevents the muscles from functioning. Believing that the disease would eventually spread to his fingers and prevent him from playing the guitar, Frampton announced a farewell tour.
The musician, who worked with David Bowie and Pearl Jam, said CBS this morning: "I'm a perfectionist and I do not want to go and feel like," Oh, I can not, it's not good. It would be a nightmare for me. "
Frampton explained, "I've been playing guitar for 60 years, that's my pbadion. I started when I was eight and now, I'm 68 years old. I have done a very good race. "
The 40 dates of Frampton's farewell tour take place in North America, with the exception of the Keeping The Blues Alive blues festival taking place in Barcelona on August 16th.
Released in 1976, 'Frampton Comes Alive' spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in the United States and sold 11 million copies. Frampton's most famous songs include 'Show Me The Way', 'Baby, I Love Your Way' and 'Do It Like You'. Cover of Will To Power's "Baby, I Love Your Way" was No. 1 in the United States in 1988.
Frampton is played at once The simpsons and Family Guy, and became famous for launching the talk box, an instrument that merged his voice with his guitar and gave him the impression of singing.
David Bowie attended the same Kent School, Bromley Technical School, as Frampton, and learned art from Frampton's father, Owen Frampton. Three years older than Frampton, Bowie later invited him to play guitar on his 1987 album, Never Let Me Down, and on Glbad spider tower.
Frampton was first famed in Humble Pie with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces, before going solo in 1971. After the success of 'Frampton Comes Alive', he was involved in a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas in 1978.
Frampton's "Fingerprints" album in 2006 featured Matt Cameron and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam.
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