Patti Smith and Peter Frampton - Summer Staff Picks

Published: Aug. 17, 2021, 4 a.m.

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As part of our summer archives series, we revisit Alec\\u2019s interview with two rock legends, Patti Smith and Peter Frampton. Alec\\u2019s conversation with Patti Smith took place before a live audience at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey, in December 2016. She tells Alec she was never looking for fame. Her love of poetry, art, and a desire to \\u201cdo something great\\u201d motivated her to move to New York when she was 20. She chronicled her formative friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe in her best-selling memoir, Just Kids. She talks to Alec about fame, friendship, and motherhood. Peter Frampton\\u2019s double album, Frampton Comes Alive! is one of the best-selling live albums of all time, and it completely changed his life. Frampton started playing guitar before he was eight years old. He talked to Alec about his musical roots in England, playing in bands like The Preachers and The Herd, and how, at 14, the Rolling Stones\\u2019 Bill Wyman became his mentor.\\xa0

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