Guitarist Peter Frampton made a rare appearance onstage at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday. Frampton stopped performing in 2022 amid a rare muscle disease diagnosis.
Frampton walked out onstage with a cane and told the crowd, “I am here tonight to honour a friend and tour mate of mine, Gary Rossington, who was a southern rock icon. He was an original founding member of the beloved group Lynyrd Skynyrd, alongside Ronnie van Zant and Alan Collins.”
Frampton paused for the crowd to cheer, and then continued: “Gary not only helped define the band’s sound, he inspired millions of fans and musicians. He has now joined his fellow Skynyrd bandmates in rock and roll heaven, but we will all enjoy their music forever.”
Frampton added that Gary’s wife, Dale, and daughter, Mary, were in attendance, along with Rickey Medlocke,Ronny Van Zant’s widow, Judy, and his granddaughter, Arayah.
Frampton walked out onstage with a cane and told the crowd, “I am here tonight to honour a friend and tour mate of mine, Gary Rossington, who was a southern rock icon. He was an original founding member of the beloved group Lynyrd Skynyrd, alongside Ronnie van Zant and Alan Collins.”
Frampton paused for the crowd to cheer, and then continued: “Gary not only helped define the band’s sound, he inspired millions of fans and musicians. He has now joined his fellow Skynyrd bandmates in rock and roll heaven, but we will all enjoy their music forever.”
Frampton added that Gary’s wife, Dale, and daughter, Mary, were in attendance, along with Rickey Medlocke,Ronny Van Zant’s widow, Judy, and his granddaughter, Arayah.
- 4/3/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
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