Peter Frampton was born on this day in 1950 in Kent in the UK. Peter and David Bowie met in a technical high school that Frampton's father was an arts instructor at and encouraged both to pursue music. Peter would go on to join a group known as The Herd and later become a member of Humble Pie at just 18. His bold decision to go solo in 1971 would be rewarded with the release of Frampton Comes Alive!, the 1976 double live release that became one of the best selling live albums in Rock history.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 22 include...
1951 Roxy Music, Ace and Mike & The Mechanics vocalist Paul Carrack is born.
1966 The Castiles with Bruce Springsteen perform in a battle of the bands competition in Matawan, New Jersey, finishing third.
1969 The Who perform Tommy live for the first time.
1969 John Lennon drops Winston as his middle name, replacing it with Ono.
1978 John Belushi & Dan Ackroyd debut their Blues Brothers act on Saturday Night Live.
1978 Bob Marley does his first concert since being shot.
1979 The Rolling Stones do a pair of club concerts in Toronto to benefit a sight impairment charity to fulfill a drug posession sentence Keith Richards was hit with.
1980 J. Geils Band releases Love Stinks.
1981 Eric Clapton crashes his car in Seattle and is hospitalized briefly.
1984 Rush releases Grace Under Fire.
1990 An estimated 750.000 attend an Earth Day concert in Central Park featuring Hall & Oates, the B-52s, Eddie Brickell and Ben E, King.
1991 The Dave Matthews Band makes its live debut at an Earth Day event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
2008 Richie Sambora enters a no contest plea on a drunk driving charge.
2009 Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck perform live together for the first time in decades.
2010 Derek Trucks breaks his leg in a softball game, but plays the following night with the Allman Brothers Band in Macon, Georgia.
2013 Richie Havens dies of a heart attack at 72.
2022 Bonnie Raitt releases Just Like That.
2023 Neil Young and Graham Nash perform together for the first time in 5 years at the Autism Speaks benefit concert at the Greek Theatre in LA.
2023 Billy Joel releases Live at the Great American Music Hall 1975...
