‘It All Comes to Roost at The Same Time’: Peter Frampton Talks New Doc, Album and Future Releases
Categoria: Musica
The legendary British artist spoke with Billboard ahead of the premiere for Frampton, the new documentary directed by longtime band member Rob Arthur.
Por Billboard | 04/06/2026
Something — actually some things — are definitely happening for Peter Frampton right now, with the British-born rocker’s present and past colliding via a couple of new projects. On May 15, Frampton released Carry The Light , his 19th studio album as a solo artist and first of all-new songs in 16 years . And this week he’s premiering the new documentary Frampton , directed by longtime band member Rob Arthur, with a special screening on Thursday (June 4) at the Tribeca Festival in New York. And all of this comes just a few months after celebrating the 50th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! , the iconic concert set that topped the Billboard 200 for 10 weeks, spawned two top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and made him the Taylor Swift of his day back in 1976. “Yeah, it all comes to roost at the same time,” Frampton, 76, sporting a denim shirt over a Tom Petty tee, tells Billboard via Zoom from Bigsby Park, his home studio at his residence in Nashville. (Bigsby, the namesake dog, stretches out on a white sofa nearby during the conversation.) “Celebrating ( Frampton Comes Alive! ) was very exiting — but daunting that it’s 50 years since that thing! And then ( Carry The Light ) and the documentary were sort of like this,” he adds, waving his arms to indicate their parallel paths, “and then all of a sudden they aligned. We didn’t plan it; it just luckily happened that way. We were going to release the album a month earlier, but then Tribeca contacted us… so we put it back so the album would come out and two weeks later it’s Tribeca, and then we could talk about both rather than talk about one thing or the other.” Rest assured there’s a lot to talk about in both cases. Showing The Way The Frampton documentary was Arthur’s brainchild, broached after Frampton began privately revealing the degenerative Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) diagnosis that’s slowly limiting his mobility and forced him to adjust his playing style — although anybody who’s seen him live since 2019 would be hard-pressed to notice. But the prospect of Frampton stopping at some point — “I thought, ‘This is the greatest gig on the planet. What am I gonna do when Peter’s done?’,” Arthur recalls — inspired him to learn film craft and, in turn, pitch the idea of a documentary. It began as chronicle of Frampton’s Finale — The Farewell Tour in 2019. “Peter said, ‘Why don’t you just film all the concerts?'” Arthur says with a laugh. “I’m like, OK — you do know I’m on stage? I’m the keyboard player, right?” Nevertheless, he employed three cameras to capture the onstage action and, since the gear was on the road, also filmed behind the scenes and began interviewing Frampton. “I’m like, ‘Wow, OK, this isn’t just a concert documentar