4 years after saying his retirement from touring, Peter Frampton has made a uncommon look on the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
The ’70s rocker attended the awards present to introduce a tribute efficiency to the late Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who died at 71 earlier this month.
“I am right here tonight to honour an expensive good friend and tourmate who we misplaced very just lately,” Frampton stated, supporting himself on-stage with a cane.
“Gary Rossington was a southern rock icon and an authentic founding member of our beloved group, Lynyrd Skynyrd.”
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“Alongside Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins. Gary not solely helped outline the band’s sound, he impressed hundreds of thousands of followers and musicians,” continued Frampton.
“He is now joined his fellow Skynyrd bandmates in rock and roll heaven, however we are going to all take pleasure in their music eternally.”
The singer’s candy tribute was adopted by a efficiency of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hit songs Easy Man and Candy Residence Alabama.
In February 2019, Frampton, who rose to fame in bands The Herd and Humble Pie earlier than embarking on a solo profession, shared with followers his prognosis with inclusion physique mitosis.
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The degenerative muscle dysfunction would finally rob him of his means to play guitar, and he introduced his retirement from touring.
The 72-year-old advised PEOPLE later that 12 months he was feeling “nice” and felt “some development,” particularly in his legs.
“I work out 5 days every week, and the extra I work out, the higher it’s to maintain the energy within the muscle groups that I nonetheless have,” he stated.
“It is beginning to have an effect on my arms and my fingers a bit of bit, nevertheless it’s not affecting my enjoying to an incredible deal, so I am nonetheless having fun with enjoying. For a way lengthy, I do not know.
“It’s extremely gradual, the development, nevertheless it’s extra the truth that I am having bother standing and strolling and issues like that, versus truly enjoying guitar.
“I’ve to say that it is affecting the whole lot, however to not the purpose the place I do not really feel my enjoying is one hundred pc.”
His retirement from touring has not stopped the ’70s rocker from enjoying exhibits; he was most just lately noticed at a Las Vegas pageant and final 12 months performing just a few exhibits all through Europe.
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