Peter Frampton says a rare disease means he has to go on a real ‘Farewell’ tour
Forty-three years after the release of that seminal double-LP live recording, the British musician has just announced the Peter Frampton Finale — The Farewell Tour. When the tour ends in October in San Francisco, where “Frampton Comes Alive!” was primarily taped on his 1975 tour, he’s done with the coming alive thing on stage.
He has to stop touring because he has inclusion body myositis, a rare and incurable degenerative muscular disease that involves inflammation of the muscles and associated tissues, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Inclusion body myositis causes muscles of the wrists and fingers, the front of the thigh, and the muscles that lift the front of the foot to progressively weaken. The heart and lungs are not affected by this disorder, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The condition progresses slowly.
“Going upstairs and downstairs is the hardest thing for me,” Frampton, 68, told CBS’ Mason. “I’m going to have to get a cane … and then the other thing I noticed, I can’t put things up over my head.”
