Peter Frampton gives heartbreaking update on rare degenerative disease: ‘I know the end game’

Peter Frampton is staying affirmative contempt being diagnosed pinch a uncommon degenerative information that affects his expertise to play guitar.

“My outlook connected it is, ‘That’s life,'” nan musician, 76, exclusively told Page Six successful a caller interview.”I’ve been truthful lucky. I’ve had an up-and-down career, but successful nan agelong run, I look astatine everything. Look astatine nan past 60 years. Wow, I’m nan luckiest feline alive!”

Frampton was diagnosed pinch Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM), a uncommon and progressive musculus disease.

According to nan Cleveland Clinic, it’s “characterized by slow, painless musculus weakening and inflammation and chiefly damages nan fingers, wrists, and quadriceps.” There is nary cure, but beingness therapy tin thief hold nan onset of symptoms.

“I’m a very affirmative person. I cognize nan endgame, but it doesn’t fuss me,” Frampton explained, noting that he’s “learned” to alteration his life by utilizing a cane and grabber devices astir nan house.

He’s besides had to “change nan way” he plays guitar, telling us, “It is simply a challenge, and I’m ever up for a challenge.”

The Grammy victor shared that nan illness has transformed his outlook connected life, making him recognize that conscionable for illustration him, everyone is “fighting a battle” and “everybody’s going through” something.

“It conscionable made maine recognize that kindness is nan astir important thing,” he continued, “because erstwhile you meet personification that you cognize aliases don’t know, you person nary thought what’s going connected successful their life aliases successful their assemblage aliases whatever. So I conscionable decided that I’m going to ore connected kindness.”

Despite his illness, Frampton wrapped up a circuit past twelvemonth and released his 19th solo workplace album, “Carry The Light,” connected May 15. The grounds is co-written and produced pinch his son, Julian, and features impermanent appearances from Sheryl Crow, H.E.R., Tom Morello and Graham Nash.

Frampton is besides celebrating nan caller documentary, “Frampton,” which premieres Thursday evening astatine the Tribeca Festival. The engrossing film, directed by Frampton’s ain longtime bandleader Rob Arthur, features uncommon archival footage, candid interviews, and, of course, unthinkable performance moments.

Fifty years ago, nan double medium “Frampton Comes Alive” was released, spawning deed singles and becoming 1 of nan best-selling unrecorded albums ever, pinch complete 7 cardinal copies sold.

The “Show Me nan Way” crooner admitted to Page Six that erstwhile he heard nan medium had outsold Carole King’s “Tapestry” record, “things started going incorrect for maine because that was truthful scary,” and he began “panicking” complete his adjacent move.

Amazingly, his profession sewage backmost connected way erstwhile he played guitar connected an aged friend’s tour: David Bowie’s 1987 “Glass Spider Tour.”

The 2 first met successful schoolhouse erstwhile Bowie, past known arsenic David Jones, was learning astir creation by Frampton’s father.

Frampton intelligibly remembers seeing a very young Bowie playing saxophone and singing successful a band, and asking his begetter astir him.

“He said, ‘Oh, that’s Jones, he’s very creative,'” Frampton’s begetter told him. “And past from that constituent on, I went to nan schoolhouse nan adjacent twelvemonth and astatine [our] first luncheon clip I made a beeline for Dave. We’ve been friends ever since.”

Bowie sadly died connected Jan. 10, 2026, pursuing a backstage conflict pinch cancer. He was 69.

Frampton’s movie besides reveals nan adjacent enslaved Frampton shares pinch his 3 children: Julian (whom he useful with), Jade and Mia. The second had a memorable cameo successful nan deed movie “Bridesmaids,” portraying nan teen who has a lengthy and hilarious back-and-forth pinch prima Kristen Wiig.

“As pinch each my children, I’m very lucky,” Frampton gushed. “We person a awesome relationship, each of us.”