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January 24, 2021

Peter Frampton articles/mentions

 
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Frampton Comes Alive! picture disc  
     
mentions:     
Jobriath      
      
     
     
      
     
      
     
      
     
      
     
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January 9, 2021

Peter Frampton, (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics

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I'll give you money
I'll give you lovin'
I'll give you everything
But heaven above

I'll give you all I have right now

I'll give you money
I'll give you lovin'
Everything

I'll give you kisses
Sweet as honey
I'll do you everything
'Cept make the sun shine

If I could change the world right now

Make you happy
Stop your cryin'
Everything
Everything

All of my life I've been dreaming
'Till you came my way
All of your life aren't you searchin'
For love forever

All I need is someone to believe in me
Even if you're losing
Watching from behind everything

I'll give you sun and
Lost all my money
I threw it all away
But now I'm happy

I'll give you all my love right now

I'll give you money
I'll give you lovin'
Everything
Everything

Money, everything
Everything
Money, everything [Repeat: x8]

Songwriter: Peter Kenneth Frampton
      
       
      
Viewfinder link:
     
Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive!       
     
YouTube link:     
      
Peter Frampton ~ (I'll Give You) Money             
     
     
     
     
     
Styrous® ~ Thursday, January 7, 2021   




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January 6, 2021

picture dis(c) 4: Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive!

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detail photo by Styrous®


Forty-five years ago today, on January 6, 1976, Peter Frampton released his  U.S. concert album, Frampton Comes Alive!, on the Herb Alpert label, A&M Records.     
 
The original release was a two vinyl LP discs album. The live album had been intended to be a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to a two vinyl LP set for release. 
 
The sound quality of picture discs has never been as good as the regular vinyl LP but I have always loved them.        
 
 

 
 
 
This is number 00848 of a limited edition (I don't know how many were issued) of the Frampton Comes Alive! vinyl LP picture disc.         


detail photo by Styrous®

 
I have two favorite cuts from the album. The first is his cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones; I love this song. It is an integral part of the plot line in the film by the same name which starred Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Doolittle, a computer operator at a Manhattan bank. A line from the movie that is hysterical is when Doolittle is trying to write down and interpret the song lyrics, which are almost unintelligible, then in exasperation she says, "Mick, Mick, Mick! Speak English!" (link below)    


 
 
My second favorite song is (I’ll Give You) Money because it is the most hard rock of all the cuts and drives, not with speed but dynamics and great guitar work. The singer basically says he'll give anything for the recipient's return of his love. The sentiments would be reflected, sensually but in stronger terms, some 35 years later with the song Be Mine (links below), from the album The Glorious Dead by The Heavy, an English rock band from Bath, Somerset, England.      
 
 
The Heavy ~ The Glorious Dead 
CD album cover

 
Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded in the summer and fall of 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York, as well as a concert on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Plattsburgh, New York. The Winterland songs were recorded on a 24-track master recorder. Other concerts were captured on a 16-track recorder. Recordings from four shows were used for the original album. Master tapes were recorded at 15 inches per second using professional Dolby "A" noise reduction.       
 
 

Peter Frampton was one of the beauties of the rock world; he was known and famous for his dazzling halo of blond hair which was featured in triplicate on the picture disc!     
 
 

Peter Frampton 
 date & photographer unknown
 
 
 
 
 
In an interview  with Jim Harrington for the Mercury News (link below) he discusses cutting his hair at the suggestion by David Bowie. Harrington to Frampton, "I have to ask, do you miss those long locks of hair now?" Frampton replied, "No. And, to be honest, I was kind of glad to see them go." I think he looked great with shorter hair and he looks really terrific today!            
 
 
Peter Frampton
 date & photographer unknown
 
 
Frampton Comes Alive! reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 8 million copies in the US and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.             
   
It was voted "Album Of The Year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on the Billboard 1977 year-end album chart. It was ranked No. 41 on the Rolling Stone "50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time" list. Readers of Rolling Stone ranked it No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums.         

 
 
 
  
Three hit singles were released from the album: Baby, I Love Your Way, Do You Feel Like We Do and Show Me the Way. The talk box guitar effect became strongly associated with Frampton when it was heard on the latter two singles. The Do You Feel Like We Do single version was edited to 7:19 from the 14:15 album version. But even at just over seven minutes, it is about twice the length of the average hit single and one of the longest ever to make the top 40 (longer even than The Beatles' Hey Jude which ran 7:11). The B-side of Do You Feel Like We Do, the acoustic instrumental Penny for Your Thoughts, was the shortest song on Frampton Comes Alive! at just 1:23.       
                  


   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Show Me The Way - 4:35
A2 - Baby, I Love Your Way - 4:37
A3 - Shine On - 3:29
A4 - Jumping Jack Flash - 7:21

Side 2:

B1 - Do You Feel Like We Do - 13:47
B2 - (I’ll Give You) Money - 6:33

Companies, etc.

    Pressed By – Pic Disc

Credits:

Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Stanley Sheldon
Design – Stan Evenson
Drums – John Siomos
Engineer [Assistant] – Corky Stasiak, Dave Witman*, Frankie D'Augusta, Jay Messina, Neil Teeman*
Engineer [Live Recording] – Eddie Kramer, Ray Thompson
Engineer [Live Recording], Remix – Chris Kimsey
Guitar, Vocals, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Piano], Organ, Grand Piano – Bob Mayo
Liner Notes – Cameron Crowe
Mastered By – Mike Reese
Photography By [Except John Siomos] – Richard E. Aaron
Photography By [John Siomos] – Mike Zagaris* 
Producer, Arranged By – Peter Frampton

Notes:

 Includes a small numbered card.

"This record is meant to be a collectors' item. The sound quality of this record is not equal to that of conventional records."

℗ 1976 A&M Records, Inc.
© 1978 A&M Records, Inc.
 
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Etching Side A): AM PR 4809 PF F1
    Matrix / Runout (Etching Side B): AM PR 4809 PF F2
 
Peter Frampton ‎– Frampton Comes Alive!
Label: A&M Records ‎– PR 3703
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture Disc
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock

 
   
         
Viewfinder links:        
         
David Bowie         
Peter Frampton            
Peter Frampton ~ (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics         
Whoopi Goldberg                  
The Heavy ~ Be Mine lyrics            
The Rolling Stones        
        
Net links:        
         
Best Classic Bands ~ Frampton: Still Very Much Alive! interview   
Click America ~ Frampton: how he finally found success           
Peter Frampton ~ (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics           
LA Times ~ Frampton Comes Alive! One more time          
RareRecords ~ Picture Discs – Records With an Image           
RollingStone ~ The 10 Best Live Albums of the 1970s       
Times Argus ~ Peter Frampton on the demise of albums        
Ultimate Classic Rock ~ Frampton Comes Alive Hits #1         
        
YouTube links:        
         
Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive! ~          
      Frampton Comes Alive! (complete album)     
      Baby, I Love Your Way      
      Do You Feel Like We Do (14 mins., 16 sec.)          
      Do You Feel Like We Do (Live ) (10 mins., 39 sec.)          
      (I’ll Give You) Money       
      Jumpin' Jack Flash     
      Shine On     
      Show Me the Way             
Whoopi Goldberg ~ Deciphering Mick Jagger (movie clip)       
The Heavy ~ Be Mine         
         
        
        
        

 
"I was pretty pleased that now they can’t be coming 
to see me because of my hair – because it’s gone."
                        ~ Peter Frampton  
        
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, January 6, 2021       
       


 

















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December 14, 2018

20,000 Vinyl LPs 160: Jobriath

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Jobriath ~ vinyl LP front cover
cover photo by Shig Ikeda
photo of album cover by Styrous®  
    
 

Bruce Wayne Campbell was born on December 14, 1946, and was known by his stage name Jobriath. He was an American actor, the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, and one of the first internationally famous musicians to die of AIDS on August 4, 1983.     

Jobriath 
photographer unknown


He was one of rock 'n’ roll’s most tragic casualties. Initially hyped as the “American David Bowie” via a massive marketing campaign spearheaded by Elektra Records and infamous Svengali Jerry Brandt, Jobriath instead faced a swift and vicious backlash — no doubt at least partially because he was openly gay, which was basically unheard-of in 1974. Less than a decade after the spectacular commercial failure of his debut album, Jobriath died of AIDS in obscurity and alone at the Chelsea Hotel.          
      
Jobriath was born in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Houston, Texas. He played organ in his local church and it was during this time he was introduced to Eugene Ormandy as a child prodigy. While he was a high school student, he became further interested in classical music, and favored composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, and he wrote the first two movements of his first symphony by his senior year in high school, but for reasons unknown chose not to complete it. In 1964, he took an interest in folk music and formed the trio, The Last Three.     


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP front cover detail cover photo by Shig Ikeda
detail photo of album cover by Styrous® 


He was drafted into the military in the mid-1960 but went AWOL within months. Renaming himself Jobriath Salisbury, he relocated to Los Angeles. He auditioned for the musical Hair as a piano player but impressed producer and director, Tom O'Horgan, with his singing and talents on the piano and was cast into a leading role as 'Woof', a gay teenager; however, in 1969 he was fired from the production for "upstaging" the other actors.   

When he left Hair he joined the folk-rock band Pidgeon as their lead singer and guitarist; the group was signed to Decca Records. The band recorded a debut album originally titled First Flight From the Forest which was re-titled by their label as the self-titled Pigeon. and shortly after the album's release the group disbanded. At this time he was traced by the military police and arrested, spending nearly six months in a military psychiatric hospital after suffering a breakdown. During this period he began writing the songs that would lead to his next musical incarnation. 


 
album cover with embossed title detail
detail photo by Styrous®

In mid-December 1972 Jerry Brandt overheard a demo tape made by Jobriath. Brandt located him in California, where he was living in an unfurnished apartment and working as a prostitute. Brandt: "In walked this beautiful creature dressed in white. I said, Why don't you come out to Malibu and hang out?" Brandt signed Jobriath, now calling himself Jobriath Boone, to Elektra Records for a reported $500,000, in what was allegedly the most lucrative recording contract of its time.   

The label's president David Geffen signed Jobriath for a two-album deal. A huge marketing campaign and media blitz ensued, including full-page advertisements in Vogue, Penthouse, and Rolling Stone magazines, full-length posters on over 250 New York City buses and a huge 41' by 43' billboard in Times Square. All featured the forthcoming debut album sleeve design by noted photographer Shig Ikeda, which featured a nude Jobriath, made to resemble an ancient Roman statue.      


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold cover 
cover photo by Shig Ikeda 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


Plans were announced for a lavish three night live debut at the Paris Opera in France that December, at a cost of $200,000 and a subsequent tour of European opera houses. Jobriath informed the press that the show would feature him dressed as "King Kong being projected upwards on a mini Empire State Building. This will turn into a giant spurting penis and I will have transformed into Marlene Dietrich." Elektra, concerned about spiraling production costs, postponed the Paris Opera shows until February, later canceling them due to expense.     
     
The debut album Jobriath was released, garnering mostly positive reviews. Rolling Stone stated that Jobriath had "talent to burn", Cashbox called it "truly one of the most interesting albums of the year" and Record World hailed it as "brilliantly incisive", referring to Jobriath as "a true Renaissance man who will gain a tremendous following". Esquire disagreed, calling it "the hype of the year".       



Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior
photo by Styrous®


The album was co-produced by Eddie Kramer and Jobriath, featuring string arrangements by Jobriath, recorded at Olympic Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra. Kramer described Jobriath in Mojo as "a romantic soul, really. He wanted orchestrations like old film music, though he knew nothing about scoring. So he bought a book on orchestration and within a week he'd come up with scores of a haunting quality". Peter Frampton is also credited on the album. 
        
Brandt continued making extravagant statements such as "Elvis, the Beatles, and Jobriath" and declaring that both he and Jobriath had booked flights on the first Pan American passenger flight to the moon. Meanwhile, Jobriath declared himself "rock's truest fairy", a comment that did little to increase his popularity at the time but has since confirmed his status as the first openly gay rock singer to be signed to a major record label.    

     

Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior detail
detail photo by Styrous® 


The debut public performance by Jobriath was made on television, when Brandt secured him an appearance on the popular show The Midnight Special. The costumes were designed by Jobriath and the choreography was by Joyce Trisler, of the Joffrey Ballet. Two songs were performed: I'maman and Rock of Ages, the latter substituting for Take Me I'm Yours which was pulled after the producer objected to its overtly sado-masochistic theme. The long-awaited live performance finally came in July 1974 with two sold-out shows at the New York The Bottom Line club. Sales for the album however, were poor and it failed to secure a chart placing.      
     


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior detail
detail photo by Styrous®  

In 1974 Jobriath and his backing-band (called 'The Creatures') did several residencies around the US in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles & Memphis. Despite the tour having several well-attended shows and/or several sold-out nights, both Brandt and Elektra stopped financing the tour midway through. Despite this, Jobriath and the band completed the tour, continuing to bill Elektra for expenses. A final show, at the University of Alabama, ended in five encores and the fire department being summoned when the excited audience set off the alarm.   
     
In January 1975 he announced his retirement from the music industry and moved into a pyramid topped rooftop apartment at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. He attempted to resume his acting career, and was invited to audition for the role of Al Pacino's lover in the film Dog Day Afternoon. According to keyboard player Hayden Wayne, Jobriath had the script for Dog Day backstage at a concert at Nassau Coliseum, and claimed he didn't want to do the film due to the character's wearing of a dress. Calling himself "Cole Berlin" (a play on both Cole Porter and Irving Berlin), he worked as a cabaret singer at a restaurant called The Covent Gardens, as well as clubs and cabarets, augmenting his income with occasional prostitution. 
      


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior detail
detail photo by Styrous®  

When his 10-year contract with Brandt was finally up, Jobriath was sick with AIDS. He began to feel ill in late 1981 but still managed to contribute to the Chelsea Hotel 100th birthday celebration in November 1982. He died on August 4, 1983, one week after the end of his original 10-year contract with Jerry Brandt expired. Jobriath was found at his piano, three days after he died.      
      
In November 2004, long-time fan Morrissey oversaw Jobriath's first CD re-issue, a compilation called Lonely Planet Boy. It was produced by Eddie Kramer. Morrissey had previously attempted to secure Jobriath as a support act for the tour in support of his Your Arsenal album, having been unaware that the singer had died some years previously.     
         


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior detail
detail photo by Styrous®


Both Jobriath's original studio albums were officially reissued on CD in Japan in late 2007, remastered and issued in mini-vinyl replica sleeves. They were released in the U.S. in standard jewel-box packaging in 2008 by Collectors' Choice Music.  

The group Balcony released a semi-tribute track entitled Jobriath as a free MP3 anonymously on the internet in 2000 that was later included on their second album Before Needs. He is referenced using his legal name by the indie-folk band Okkervil River on the final song of their 2008 album The Stand Ins, entitled "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979".     
           

Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold interior detail
detail photo by Styrous®

Filmmaker Kieran Turner (24 Nights) has created a feature documentary about the late singer called Jobriath A.D. (link below).  


Jobriath A.D poster 

      
Def Leppard released a cover of Heartbeat on some versions of their 2006 album Yeah!. Morning Starship was sampled by hip-hop artist Ill Bill on the title track to his 2007 mixtape album Black Metal. Ann Magnuson is working on an EP featuring four Jobriath songs and a spoken-word narrative.   

On October 29, 2013, Eschatone Records released three 1971 Jobriath tracks digitally and on 10" vinyl as the EP Amazing Dope Tales.      
 
On May 6, 2014, Eschatone Records released the full-length As the River Flows album of never-before released Jobriath recordings from 1971–72 on CD, limited edition vinyl and in digital format.  
      


Jobriath ~ vinyl LP gatefold detail
detail photo by Styrous®



Jobriath ~ vinyl LP, side 1
photo by Styrous®



Jobriath ~ vinyl LP label, side 1
photo by Styrous®





Jobriath ~ vinyl LP, side 2
photo by Styrous®





Jobriath ~ vinyl LP label, side 2
photo by Styrous®




Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Take Me I'm Yours     4:14
A2 - Be Still     3:40
A3 - World Without End     3:43
A4 - Space Clown     2:57
A5 - Earthling     3:53
A6 - Movie Queen     1:50

Side 2:

B1 - I'maman     3:35
B2 - Inside     3:52
B3 - Morning Star Ship     3:30
B4 - Rock Of Ages     2:21
B5 - Blown Away     4:59

Companies, etc.

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra Records
    Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound

Credits:

    Lacquer Cut By – RL*
    Mixed By, Producer – Edwin H. Kramer*
    Musician – Andy Muson, Billy Schwartz, Carl Hall, Heather MacRae, John Syomis, Ken Bichel, Peter Frampton, Rhetta Hughes, Steve Love, Tasha Thomas, Zenobia (5)
    Written-By, Producer – Jobriath

Notes:

Housed in a gatefold cover with embossed title on the front.

1st catalog number as printed on center labels.
2nd catalog number as printed on cover spine.

Runout info: STERLING is machine-stamped, everything else is hand written.
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): EKS-75070-A-1 STERLING RL B
    Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): EKS-75070-B-3 STERLING RL
    Other (On spine of the cover): 0598

Jobriath ‎– Jobriath
Label: Elektra ‎– EKS-75070, Elektra ‎– 75070
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Rock
Style: Glam
      
  
     
Viewfinder links:
          
Marlene Dietrich        
Gay Gaze 'n Daze           
Sergei Rachmaninoff             
        
Net links:
          
NY Times ~ A Life Story of Glitter and Tragedy review      
The Guardian ~ Jobriath: the man who fell to earth
                       ~ Jobriath A.D. review       
Hollywood Reporter ~ "American Bowie" gets his due   
Film Journal ~ Jobriath A.D. review       
  
YouTube links:
          
Jobriath ~            
       I'maman           
       Rock of Ages            
       Take Me I'm Yours  
       Morning Star Ship 
       Gone Tomorrow      
       Space Clown        
       World Without End  
       Be Still
       Inside
       Jobriath A.D. - Glam Rock's Lost God      
    
        
       
           
Jobriath
photograph: Factory 25
              
  
     
        
            
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