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By ROBIN WELLES Copley News ServiceHOLLYWOOD - PeterFrampton is elbowing Elton John out of the American musical spotlight in yet another of the seemingly endless battles among British rock stars for dominance in the rich U.S. marketLike John, Frampton was asuccess in England long before his managers pointed the good looking guitar whiz at the former colony over the Atlantic.Bom in Bromley, England,THE WORLD OF MUSICFrampton already was cut- avalanche of “live’’ records ting records at 14 and three by other artists, years later he was heading At 26, Frampton looks back the British pop charts with a on a full life band called, The Herd.” *Tm still knocked out at By age 21, Frampton was the fact that all the attention, playing backup guitar for the success and so forth, George Harrison, Harry Nill- came when it did,” he said, son and John Entwistle. The same exuberant spiritThen he went solo and that has captivated American crashed the American scene audiences is again evident in with his first LP, 'Wind of his latest A AM IP, called Change A few years later, *Tm In You. Frampton'a in 1976, came the greatest live firmly at center stage - and album rock music ever has he’s going to be hard to dis-seen: ‘Frampton Comes place.Alive.” The LP has made millions - and also set off an
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Chicago South End Reporter
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Aug 31, 1977
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