INDIAN HILLS, OH. (THECOUNT) — Peter Frampton, the legendary guitarist and singer whose 1976 record, “Frampton Comes Alive,” still ranks as one of the best-selling live albums of all time, has revealed that he will stop touring after being diagnosed with a rare degenerative muscular disease.
Frampton, 68, announced on Friday that his upcoming tour will be his last after opening up for the first time about his condition in an interview with “CBS This Morning: Saturday.”
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Frampton said he has been furiously recording music since he was diagnosed with inclusion body myositis, a rare and incurable inflammatory condition which causes muscles to weaken slowly.
“Between October and two days ago, we’ve done like 33 new tracks,” he said. “I just want to record as much as I can, you know, now, for obvious reasons.”
Frampton was diagnosed about three and a half years ago after a fall on stage. The disease progressed gradually, but sometime around last September or October, after he came off tour, he felt the effects speed up. He started to make plans to leave the road after a particularly bad fall while on vacation with his daughter in Maui.
“What will happen, unfortunately, is that it affects the finger flexors,” he said. “That’s the first telltale sign is the flexors, you know. So for a guitar player, it’s not very good.”
Frampton has lived in London and various U.S. locations, including Westchester County, New York; Los Angeles, California; and Nashville, Tennessee. He moved to Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Elfers and the city in which they were married in 1996, according to wikipedia.
Geo quick facts: The Village of Indian Hill is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and an affluent suburb of the Greater Cincinnati area. The population was 5,785 at the 2010 census – Wikipedia.