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Frampton Comes Alive! is a live album by Peter Frampton released in 1976.Since leaving Humble Pie, Frampton had released four solo albums with minimal commercial success. This changed with Frampton's breakthrough album, Frampton Comes Alive!. The album was recorded in 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco, California and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York. Released on January 6, 1976, it debuted on the charts at 191. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976 and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the U.S. and became the best-selling live album of all time. Frampton Comes Alive! was voted "Album of the year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still 14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart. It remains the second best selling live album in the U.S. behind Garth Brooks' Double Live. The most recognizable songs from the album are "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do", all of which were released as singles, and continue to receive much airplay on classic rock radio stations.The album was recorded by a mobile recording studio on a 1 inch 8-track master tape recorder. State of the art studios at that time typically utilized 2 inch 16 or 24 track recorders. In January 2001, a "25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of the album was released, containing four additional tracks that were not included on the original version. The track sequence is also slightly different.