BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A famed singer and guitarist who once had the best-selling live album of all time will return to Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
Peter Frampton, best known for his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive,” which was the biggest-selling live album for more than 20 years, will play at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3.
Tickets, at $80.50-$130.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at the Wind Creek Event Center website or the event center box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $80.50-$130.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at the Wind Creek Event Center website or the event center box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
“Frampton Comes Alive” which sold more than 8 million copies, held the record as the best-selling live album ever until Garth Brooks’ “Double Live” passed it in 1998.
It spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and 97 weeks on the chart.
It spawned the platinum hit "Baby I Love Your Way,” the gold hit “Show Me the Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do?,” all of which reached the Top 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
More hit albums and singles
Frampton, who will turn 75 three weeks after the Wind Creek show, also had a platinum No. 2 album with 1977’s “I’m In You.”
In all, he’s had four gold or platinum albums and nine Top 20 hits.
He also co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie.
Frampton in October was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“He said, ‘Do it. The people want to see you.' Then he said, and it was important the way he put it, ‘They’ll understand.'"Peter Frampton, talking about the doctor who told him to play again
In 2019, Frampton told fans he was retiring from touring after being diagnosed with inclusion body myositis, a degenerative muscular disease that affects his ability to play guitar.
He later said a visit to an ENT doctor changed his mind.
“He said, ‘Do it. The people want to see you,’' Frampton said. "Then he said, and it was important the way he put it, ‘They’ll understand.'"
Frampton also headlined the event center in 2023, and, when it was called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2016 and in July 2014 with Cheap Trick, and in 2015 with The Doobie Brothers.
He also played Bethlehem's Musikfest festival in 2004 and 2013 with B.B. King, and at Sands Bethlehem Casino Resort’s Musik at the Sands series in 2011.
