The Groundbreaking Frampton Comes Alive! Album

A senior executive in the fabric industry, David Raminfard heads two companies based in Vernon, California: Kaslen Textiles and New Point Fabric. Outside of the professional sphere, he enjoys attending concerts with his friends. One of David Raminfard’s favorite musicians is Peter Frampton.

A legendary live performer, Peter Frampton rocketed to superstardom on the popularity of an album that captured his music in concert before an audience. He recorded 1976’s Frampton Comes Alive! during a series of live shows between the summer and autumn of 1975.

Sometime during the production process, A&M Records decided to expand Frampton Comes Alive! from a single disc to a two-disc release, setting an industry standard for the double-live album. The album featured a number of songs that Peter Frampton had previously recorded in the studio, but All Music describes the live renditions as “much more inspired, confident, and hard-hitting.”

Driven by the hit single “Show Me the Way,” Frampton Comes Alive! quickly became the best-selling album of all time. Although other albums have subsequently eclipsed it in terms of sales, it is still respected and popular today, enjoying frequent AOR airplay and making Rolling Stone’s 2015 list of the “50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time.”