Peter Frampton's iconic live album Frampton Comes Alive is undoubtedly one of the greatest live rock albums, well, ever, with "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Show Me the Way" earning a permanent place in the collective American consciousness and solidifying Frampton as a rock legend.

Born in 1950 in the Kent town of Beckenham, Peter Frampton started playing guitar at age eight and played with several rock 'n' roll bands as a teen with moderate success. In 1966 Frampton dropped out of school and joined the Herd, the mod-pop outfit from which he got his first real glimpse of success, as the band released several British hits from 1967 to '68 and teen idol Frampton was hailed the "Face of 1968." The following year Frampton and Small Faces frontman Steve Marriot formed the harder rock band Humble Pie, but he left just as the band was taking off in 1971 to go solo. Wind of Change, Frampton's solo debut, was issued in 1972, but when it wasn't very successful he formed an official backing band called Frampton's Camel, only to go solo again for 1974's Somethin's Happening.

In 1976 Frampton finally hit the jackpot with an eponymous album that climbed the charts to the Top 40 and eventually went gold in the U.S. in 1975. The year proved to be a good one for Frampton, who released a double-LP set of his live show recorded at San Francisco's Winterland called Frampton Comes Alive! The album was a smash success, selling over 16 million copies due to his large concert draw and pioneering use of the talk box guitar. The album, which was the most popular live record yet released until Garth Brooks stole the title, spawned Frampton's first three hit singles, "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do" and "Show Me the Way."

Hot on the heels of his live album's success, Frampton released I'm in You in 1977 and the title track was Frampton's biggest hit of his career. The subsequent years were tough for Frampton, who appeared in the big-budget version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (which tanked in the box office,) was involved in a near-fatal car crash, split with his longtime girlfriend and battled drug abuse. In 1979 Frampton made a comeback with the gold-selling I Should Be and continued to release moderately successful albums into the new millennium while remaining a major concert draw.