How Peter Frampton’s breakthrough hit marked the beginning of the end: “Overkill”We’re inclined to think of 1976 as the year punk broke, or as a time when disco was king. If you were magically transported back to a random college dorm in America in the summer of ‘76, though, you’d quickly realise you were living in the age of Peter Frampton. Frampton’s double-live album Frampton Comes Alive!, released in January of that year, spent ten weeks as the best-selling record in the US, well on its way to going 8x platinum. The weirder thing about Frampton Comes Alive!, though, is that it hadn’t actually come out of nowhere, and it really shouldn’t have worked. (Credits: Album Cover)“The success of Frampton Comes Alive!