“I’ve learned this—it’s my little bit of wisdom: a
pop star’s career lasts about eighteen months. Your fans grow into you, and
then they grow out of you and they’re on to something else. But a musician’s
career is a lifetime.”—Rock star Peter Frampton, reflecting on his
extraordinarily successful LP Frampton
Comes Alive and the 40 years since, quoted in John Seabrook, “Sic Transit Dept.: Life After Life,” The New Yorker, March 14, 2016
(Photo of Frampton performing at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, FL, taken on Sept. 26, 2006, by Carl Lender)
