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Wednesday 11 september 2024
Peter Frampton finally finds Rock & Roll Hall of Fame doors open to him

By MARK KENNEDY years, including co-writing
AP Entertainment Writer “Do You Feel Like I Do?”
NEW YORK (AP) — At the In her acceptance speech,
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Crow revealed that in 1976
induction ceremony last when she was 14, she and
year, Sheryl Crow was six teen friends caught
about to sing her hit “Ev- Frampton in concert in
eryday Is a Winding Road” Memphis, Tennessee. “I got
when she invited a rock to sing along with tens of
icon up on stage. thousands of strangers to
“Ladies and gentlemen, ‘Do You Feel Like I Do?’”
I have to bring out one of She called it a pivotal mo-
my heroes Peter Framp- ment. Perhaps more than
ton,” she said as he ap- any musician, Frampton
peared to huge cheers, slid was associated with the
on a Gibson electric guitar talk box, a guitar effect that
and made musical sparks runs a tube from an ampli-
immediately curl from the fier to the mouth, creating
instrument. a sound both psychedelic
Frampton was still jamming and robotic, a technique
away when he got a hug that has been used by ev-
from Crow and then Ste- eryone from Mötley Crüe to
vie Nicks. When he went Pink Floyd.
into a blistering solo, there Peter Frampton performs during “Finale - The Farewell Tour” at Huntington Bank Pavilion on Sunday, “I’ve never been about the
was a wide smile on his July 28, 2019, in Chicago. bravado of being a star.
face. “That’s how you do Associated Press I’ve never thought of my-
it, Peter Frampton!” Crow self that way. I’m a lifelong
screamed. his home in Nashville. “I will writer has been eligible Tribe Called Quest, Kool & musician and I just want to
Call that electric perfor- always be indebted to her for the hall since 1998. “I The Gang, Ozzy Osbourne, be able to play as long as I
mance a dress rehearsal. for a wonderful opportunity thought it just wasn’t go- Dave Matthews Band, the can,” he says.
This year, Frampton finally she gave me.” ing to happen and I got late Jimmy Buffett, MC5, “I speak through my guitar
will be inducted into the Frampton earned his way on with my life,” he says. Dionne Warwick, Alexis Ko- I think more than I do with
rock hall himself, an honor into the hall in large part “I never expect awards. rner, John Mayall and Big words. I think more emotion
his fans believe is long over- on the strength of his 1976 Whatever comes my way, Mama Thornton in the class and soul comes from my
due. The ceremony is Oct. live double album “Framp- I’m honored and thrilled of ‘24. notes that I play and than
19 in Cleveland. ton Comes Alive!” buoyed about.” “I’m absolutely thrilled for anything I could ever say.”
He thanks Crow for sharing by the hit songs “Show The opening of the door for Peter. He’s given his whole Major awards until recently
her spotlight. Me the Way” and “Baby, Frampton coincided with a life to this business and he have eluded Frampton,
“I don’t think I would have I Love Your Way” that Roll- change in hall leadership in deserves as much as any- who had his music played
been nominated had it ing Stone magazine listed 2023 that led to key legacy one does,” said bassist Rick in films like “Jumanji: Wel-
not been for Sheryl push- among the 50 greatest live acts getting invites, like For- Wills, who is going into the come to the Jungle,”
ing me out there,” he tells albums of all time. eigner and Cher. hall with Foreigner and who “Dazed and Confused”
The Associated Press from The guitarist-singer-song- They’ll join Mary J. Blige, A played with Frampton for and “The Banger Sisters.”q

Mel B joins a campaign calling for a new U.K. law to bar Afro hair

discrimination

By SYLVIA HUI the public to prevent seri- World Afro Day on Sunday. from the law has facilitated Racial discrimination based
Associated Press ous harm,” read the open “The omission of hair as a everyday discrimination on hairstyles has been a
LONDON (AP) — Former letter, released ahead of protected characteristic and the normalization of topic of debate and law-
Spice Girl Mel B is among Afro hair as inferior in every suits in the United States
dozens of Black Britons urg- sphere of life,” it added. for some time. Earlier this
ing Parliament to update Mel B wrote that her “big year a trial took place in
the country’s equality laws wild curly hair” drew un- Texas involving a Black stu-
and prohibit Afro hair dis- wanted attention for her as dent who was suspended
crimination. a child and later as a pop- from his school for wearing
In an open letter to law- star. twisted dreadlocks.Texas
makers on Tuesday, cam- “The very first video shoot I and Michigan are among
paigners including Mel B, did as a Spice Girl for ‘Wan- two dozen U.S. states that
singer Beverley Knight and nabe,’ the stylists took one recently introduced laws
lawmaker Paulette Hamil- look at my hair and told me intended to bar employers
ton called for the U.K. to in- it had to be straightened,” and schools from penal-
troduce a law to recognize she said. izing people because of
Afro hair as a protected “My big hair didn’t fit the hairstyles including Afros,
characteristic. pop star mold.” braids, dreadlocks, twists or
“For too long, people with She said she stood her Bantu knots.
Afro hair have experienced Singer Mel B poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere ground and did not change In July, the U.S. territory
unjust treatment in U.K. so- of the film ‘The Truth’ and the opening gala of the 76th edition of her hair, and women still tell of Puerto Rico passed
ciety and the current law is the Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2019. her how the 1990s music similar anti-discrimination
Associated Press
not direct enough to gov- video inspired them to stop legislation.q
ern businesses, schools and straightening their hair.