![]() This line-up made four acclaimed albums As Safe As Yesterday, Town And Country, Humble Pie and Rock On, none of which charted though and the band were beset by management and record company problems that hampered any lasting success despite having a No. The creative limitations that pop stardom imposed on him though made Frampton restless, and in October 1968, after sitting in on a Small Faces gig and striking up an immediate rapport with Steve Marriott, the two of them began hatching plans for a more interesting future.įrampton left The Herd in April 1969 and that same month formed the ‘supergroup’ Humble Pie with Marriott on guitar and vocals, Jerry Shirley on drums and Greg Ridley on bass. With Andy Bown (keyboards), Gary Taylor (bass) and Andrew Steele (drums), and aided by Frampton’s teen appeal – he was saddled with the tag “the face of ’68” by Rave magazine – The Herd were indeed a successful 1960s pop group with three Top 20 singles – ‘From The Underworld’, ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘I Don’t Want Our Loving To Die’ – and an album also called Paradise Lost. I said ‘Yeah’, so I quit school and we sort of had a teenybopper success for a while.” ![]() Andy Bown saw me with The Preachers and asked me whether I’d like to join The Herd. We had a sax, trumpet, drums, organ, bass, guitar. “We were sort of a jazz band, we played a sort of Mose Allison stuff. As was the norm in those days bands appeared and disappeared at a rapid rate and at various times Frampton was also a member of The Trubeats and a band called The Preachers. By the time he was 12, he was in a band called The Little Ravens and attending Bromley Technical School alongside David Bowie with whom he apparently used to while away the lunch hours playing Buddy Holly songs. Thankfully he moved on to learn the piano and guitar and to take classical music lessons at age eight. He was born in April 1950 in Beckenham, Kent and discovered music, in the shape of his grandmother’s banjolele, at an early age.
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