Overview
- The first trailer for Frampton was released this week and the feature documentary has its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, June 4.
- Rob Arthur, Frampton’s longtime bandleader, directed the film and framed it as an intimate portrait tracing the guitarist’s public rise and private struggles.
- The trailer includes rare archival photos and video plus interview clips from many peers and public figures, including Tom Morello, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Alice Cooper and Kate Hudson.
- The film chronicles key turns in Frampton’s life: the 1976 Frampton Comes Alive! phenomenon, later substance use and a near‑fatal 1978 car crash, and his decades-long effort to rebuild a touring career.
- Frampton has been off the road since November 2025 and is reported to attend the premiere, and the film’s release coincides with the 50th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! while drawing attention to Inclusion Body Myositis and the limits it places on a performing musician.