Peter Frampton Announces Farewell Tour After Being Diagnosed With Degenerative Muscle Disease

Sep 01, 2019 by apost team

The man behind one of the best-selling live rock albums of all time, “Frampton Comes Alive!” has announced that he will be performing his last shows. The “Peter Frampton Finale Tour” comes in light of his recent degenerative muscle disease diagnosis.

The tour and a double album are the last hurrahs before Frampton retires and focuses on his health. He told the press that he was diagnosed with inclusion body myositis (or I.B.M.), which causes his muscles to diminish. He knows he’s a perfectionist and so hopes to record and play as much as possible before his finger flexors weaken.

"I've been playing guitar for 60 years. Started when I was eight and now I'm 68,” he told CBS News. “So, I've had a very good run."

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The tour started in mid-June and continues on to October for a run of more than fifty dates. Audiences can expect performances of his hit singles as a solo artist including “Show Me the Way” and “Baby, I Love Your Way,” as well as songs from his time as a founding member of Humble Pie.

$1 of every ticket of the tour is going to a special fund at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Frampton is being treated. He has a positive outlook and sees the diagnosis as another door opening in his life. When asked what the final tour date will be like, he told Rolling Stone,

“We’re going to celebrate. We’re not going to look backwards. We’re going to go forward. I know I’ve got so much more to do.”

Best wishes to Peter Frampton and his family during this difficult time. Be sure to tell the Peter Frampton fan in your life about this big news.