Do You Feel Like I Do? chronicles Peter Frampton's storied career which rose to astronomical heights with the release of his unbelievable and one of my absolute favorite albums, "Frampton Comes Alive!" in 1976 to his lower moments when his career seemed to be a bust. It covers his start with Humble Pie and his brushes with other famous musicians like the Who and David Bowie who just happened to be his father's art school student and an "older brother" type of mentor. He details his life as a musician who's not just a pretty face but an amazing guitarist, his marriages, his children, his near fatal car accident in the Bahamas, and his struggles with alcohol and drugs as well as his financial troubles and the autoimmune disease from which he now suffers.

Reading this book makes you feel like you're sitting in Frampton's living room or recording studio, and he's telling you about his life, friend to friend. Always humble, always gracious even to those who did him wrong like his original manager who made off with millions of his fortune, his generous and easy-going nature shines in the conversational, mildly humorous language he uses.

Frampton talks about being swindled into being in the Sargent Pepper movie, which he knows was a complete disaster. He discusses the car accident in the Bahamas where he once owned a house and how it led to further problems for him. And you hear updates throughout the book about his beloved Black Beauty Les Paul guitar, which he played on his famous live album and was stolen and recovered in Curacao 32 years later.

I really enjoyed reading this book, not just because I'm a fan, but Frampton is so humble and grateful for the life he's led. He is self-deprecating and points out when he made mistakes and when he chose the right path. He never seems arrogant or self-serving. Even when he discovered that he developed Inclusion body myositis (IBM), he did not fall into a pity party, he decided to tour as much as possible, enjoy his days, and help bring awareness to the disease.

One issue I did have with the book is that there are a few times where the book jumps chronologically, and you need to go back to remember when an event happened. Sometimes, a story went off in another direction before it was entirely finished and then jumped back, but seriously, it wasn't much of an issue and didn't detract from my interest.

I also wanted to hear more about what happened with his former girlfriend Penny, his muse for his most famous and beloved songs, "Show Me the Way" and "Baby I Love Your Way." Allegedly, she sued him for palimony, and it seemed like a very public case, and she seemed to be bad news for Frampton. However, you can tell that he is a total gentleman--he doesn't bash anyone including her.

And I was hoping to see more pictures--sorry, Peter, you were definitely easy on the eyes.

I appreciated that he explained what he loves about being a musician, how he likes to work, what his inspirations were, and how he never gave up even during the pressure he felt to produce another blockbuster album after the live masterpiece. And, damn, he knows everyone! From Bob Newhart to members of Soundgarden, I'm getting the impression that he's a really friendly and loyal guy who just happens to be an awesome musician.

You know what I feel? That this book will grant fans the inside glimpse into Peter Frampton the man and the musician.

This is a story of a rock and roll life well lived. Frampton's career, from teen star to 70s hearthrob to rock superstar, is one of those truly one-of-a-kind stories, told with great candor and enthusiasm.

The stories of rock excess are in there, as are the stories of working with other titans like David Bowie and George Harrison.

Good rock bios are hard to come by. I really enjoyed this one.

I was always interested in my dads choice of music & Peter Frampton was one of them. I grew up on his live album & found this book & Peter's life really interesting. It is heartfelt, sad & very real. I highly recommend this book!

"Do You Feel Like I Do," the new autobiography of and by musician, Peter Frampton, is fabulous. Peter has enjoyed quite a career throughout his life, though many only know parts of it; he used to be in Humble Pie, he made a film, he had the bestselling live album that exploded onto the scene back in the day. Yet many do not know the many wonderful details, in between the events the average person remembers.

Though I feel I was fairly well versed on him, I did not know what a talent he already was at a young age, and his entry way into the music business feels as if he is blessed by the guiding hand of a higher power (like God). I was also one of the many who did not understand that Frampton was more a musician than merely a personality/singer. Getting a chance to journey with him through the course of his life thus far, his career, the ups, the downs the already mentioned blessings is a treat.

The book is well written, and focused. Where some bio and autobiographical material becomes mired in eye closing minutia (thinking about The OX about bassist John Entwislet) this one had me turning pages and doing the "just ONE more chapter" act. It is that good.

If you love rock's music, personalities, the 70's, this one is for you. I absolutely loved this book.

Peter Frampton's memoir is a bit choppy in places, but I'm pretty sure his fans won't care! The stories he tells of his life, from
earliest memories to to his current battle with IBM. He's had quite the life. It's an entertaining read, much more so than some rock star memoir I've read. Easy, quick and informative read. Make a fine gift for a fan!

Was excited to receive this and the cover photo was one of my fav pics of his. If rock star bios are your thing, you’ll enjoy. I do agree with the sentiments stated by another reviewer in that I think Frampton could have dug a little deeper - into alcoholism and failed marriages. In the end, it’s a really nice walk down memory lane for that time period of music!

Do You Feel Like I Do is a memoir by Peter Frampton.  I had grown up listening to Peter's music as my Dad was a fan, so I was interested in learning more about him. The book starts talking about a plane crash with all his equipment on board.  The story comes back a few more times in the book with them trying to figure out how to leave the country and if any of the instruments or equipment could have been salvaged.  It was a neat approach to rather than tell this story chronologically when it happened in relation to the rest of the book - start by grabbing you with this mystery and then intertwine it in to the rest of the story.  I didn't know too much about Peter so it was nice to find out more about him and his experiences in the music industry from his own perspective.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

Peter Frampton overnight went from rock obscurity to being a household name with the phenomenal success of "Frampton Comes Alive," which at the time sold eight million copies, a figure unheard of. Frampton is best known for such hits as "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", and "I'm in You." His trademarked long locks and pop star looks combined with awesome musicianship made Frampton a sensation in the mid seventies. He wasn't a one-hit wonder, but his catapult to success with that one live album came out of nowhere and was never duplicated. Truth be told Frampton, as he tells it in his autobiography, never wanted pop stardom and wanted to be recognized for his guitar playing with or without his talk box 📦 featured on Show Me the Way and Do You Feel.

Frampton had a long career that encompassed far more than his brief flirtation with ultra stardom and here he tells the story beginning with childhood, going to school with Dave Jones (who later became Bowie) and jamming and hobnobbing with all of British rock royalty. He doesn't leave out the drunken car crashes in the Caribbean, the drug addled concerts, and the AA meetings, the promoters who ripped him off, and the times when the world's biggest star was dead broke. Frampton can be an intriguing storyteller. Nevertheless, like most rock biographies, the endless stars and tours can be a bit numbing to go through. Overall, and to a story of a meteoric rise and fall and perseverance that ended up at seventy years and going a life full and well lived.

Thanks to NetGalley and Hachette Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review.
Frampton Comes Alive (again) in this entertaining, laid back enjoyable memoir. In 1950 post WWII deprived England, Peter is born to Peggy and Owen Frampton. Finding his grandmothers banjolele in an attic, he taught himself to play (at age seven) and later taught himself guitar and piano. As lead guitarist of the Herd and co-founder of Humble Pie with Steve Marriott, stardom came quickly. He became part of the group of musicians that would make up the 1960’s British Invasion, The Who, the Stones and the Beatles. Peter played on George Harrison’s solo debut album ‘All Things Must Pass’, his own solo album would feature guest appearances by Billy Preston and Ringo Starr and he would collaborate with Pearl Jam, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilsson. He share insights into his lasting friendship with a classmate, David Bowie, playing together on the Glass Spider Tour.
Wanting to be ‘just a good guitar player’ Frampton often struggled with the stardom that followed the success of his 1976 double album ‘Frampton Comes Alive’. The media would label him a pop idol. His good looks would, grace magazine covers and posters flaunted his good looks and not his skill as a guitarist or songwriter. He suffered other trials of his success, money issues due to poor management, failed marriages, alcohol addiction. and in recent years deteriorating health. Throughout it all, Peter chooses to focus on the positives and the lessons learned. Perhaps that is the true measure of the man. Thank you Peter for your gift!

Well, Peter Frampton just defined my senior year in high school - what a musical icon! It was great to read this memoir and really get into his life, not just his fabulous album, Frampton Comes Alive. There's a lot in his musical history that I was unaware of. Reading about some of it got a little tedious, but I did enjoy hearing about his relationships with so many more musical artists, and was surprised that he had been playing publicly until just recently. Thank you, Mr. Frampton, for sharing your genius with us!

And thank you, NetGalley for allowing me to read this memoir.

As someone who remembers Peter Frampton from my teenage years it was cool to read about his story. Good insight into what his life was like. I highly recommend this book.

When I was in college (way back in the early 1970’s!) I was an overnight DJ on a low wattage AM college radio station. On the wall of this tiny radio station was one poster: Peter Frampton from the Frampton’s Camel album. He looked like the quintessential rock god. And that poster summarizes this breezy autobiography written by Frampton. He spends much of the book speaking to the conflict that arose in his own life because he “just wanted to be a guitar player” and not the pop star he became after issuing a live solo album soon after leaving the rock group Humble Pie. The book travels easily from Frampton’s breakthrough as a teenager all the through his many career ups-and-downs, his several marriages, and his late-in-life health issues. It’s an interesting read but don’t look for a “deep read.” I enjoyed this advance reader’s copy from NetGalley.

This memoir is a very quick and easy read: two thirds "I played with XX famous musician" and 1/3 personal/musical memoir. Frampton certainly collaborated with a huge host of big names in his career - from Ringo to Bowie, and it is clear he's a genuine and nice, laidback kind of guy. There are no big reveals here, no inside story. A lot of the bad he's at peace with and so doesn't discuss much at all. So what you get are a lot of memories playing with various people across the decades and how he came to terms with the doubled edged sword of having the number one selling record (at the time) and live album of all time.

The book is mostly chronological, though there are some memories appearing randomly in places. It details growing up a generation after the deprivation of WW2 in England, how he was the right age/place to become part of the British rock wave begun with the Beatles, and mostly it just feels like he walked into the perfect situations to further his success and career. Looking deeper, it becomes obvious that he is a nice and decent person who was definitely very good at playing the guitar. And so other musicians gravitated to him and knew they could trust him (in a business where drugs, alcohol, money, and women turn nice guys into destructive balls of selfishness).

The hardest aspect of the book is that you have to read between the lines to understand the difficult parts of his life. E.g., he says he became an alcoholic but all you really read of how that affected him was when he said he got plastered one night and realized he would have to go to AA. He never chose to be with groupies and instead was monogamous but also failed to keep marriages (and again, he doesn't really go into why they failed, perhaps to protect his children from the fighting that would result of trying to find blame). Similarly, he had several managers (nearly all of them, if you read between the lines) steal a lot of his earnings. But then he'll dismiss that as "well, but without them I likely wouldn't have made as much anyway." In many ways, Frampton can be very hard to pin down; he is very sanguine about most topics and clearly doesn't dwell on the negative.

I think most people will remember him for the Frampton Comes Alive album. He doesn't go into a lot of detail about the making of the album but it is clear that its success had a deleterious effect: he had to compete with himself for the rest of his career. As well, at the same time the album hit success, the media focused on his looks and turned him into an idol - alienating his male rock audience and diluting the skill of his music.

The book is very current to the end, discussing Covid 19 lockdown issues and his deteriorating health. It was fun reading about all the people he has played with and their mutual respect. But that was a lot of the autobiography and it mostly came down to "he liked me and my music and I liked him and his music." As such, they could pretty much have been just listed since there wasn't perhaps all that much to discuss about the collaborations. E.g., Frampton went on the Glass Spider tour with Bowie and all we hear about it is that Bowie would call him out by name and that he enjoyed it. And yeah, that Bowie is a great guy. If Frampton had bad/poor collaborations or was snuffed/insulted by other musicians, it isn't in here. If anything interesting happened on the various tours, we would only get rare snippets unless it was a major known incident (such as the plane crash in South America).

So although Frampton is candid about his life, it's about the positives. I don't think he's hiding anything; rather, he's just the type of guy who doesn't let things bother him too much and so doesn't dwell on them. Great for him but perhaps not as interesting for readers.

As a sidenote, I was a tween when his albums hit but my mother and her best friend just loved him. Her friend even tried to get a license plate in California that said, "ImInYou" but it was rejected as being too salacious by the DMV. The I'm In You album was a disappointment to Frampton (he said his head just wasn't in it after the success of Comes Alive) but it was certainly everywhere at the time. So while Frampton really hated becoming an idol rather than a musician, being an idol meant a lot to so many women at the time. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.