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Platinum Spinner. One hit LP has made Peter Frampton, 26, a multimillionaire in a mere 18 months. Frampton Comes Alive! has sold 11 million copies, earning the transplanted British rock star $6.4 million; in addition, he grossed $3.5 million in S.R.O. concerts across the U.S. last year. It took the wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 120 lbs.) guitarist ten hard years of experimentation and road tours before he hit platinum. Says he: "I would never have believed 18 months ago that I'd be driving around in limos, own a Rolls and live this...
...Pack's "Silver, Blue and Gold." Bad Company hasn't really developed along radically new lines, except for theri closer meshing-together as a group and a tighter control over the abrupt transitions from one volume and rhythm intensity to another that flawed passages of their first two LP's. Great band. Popular band. Great record. Should be a popular record, too. Turn...
...Kunstlied (art song) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has not recorded in that mellifluous, burnished voice, it is not worth the vinyl. He has of late taken up conducting, and his lyric versions of Schubert's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8 ("Unfinished") can be found on an Angel LP. Yet Fischer-Dieskau has found the time and talent for a new career: literature. Last year he produced Wagner and Nietzsche, a lively account of the celebrated battle of composer and philosopher...
...latest work is a learned, immensely readable study of Schubert's life and songs. The volume grew out of a long article Fischer-Dieskau wrote for his three-volume, 29-LP collection of Schubert lieder issued by Deutsche Grammophon seven years ago. There is also a companion volume, the Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder (Knopf; $15), containing texts and new translations of the singer's favorite German songs...
George Benson: In Flight (Warner Bros.). One record can make a man rich for the rest of his life. Breezin', Benson's 1976 LP, turned the trick for the guitarist-singer. He took the premier spot on the jazz, rock, soul and easy-listening charts. His name began cropping up on network TV. George bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole...