Peter Frampton, a 1970s singer and guitar god and recent headliner at Bethlehem’s Musikfest, and hit-making 1970s soft-rock group The Doobie Brothers say on their websites they’ll team up for a concert at Sands Bethlehem Event Center.
And the center says The Monkees, one of the top-selling bands of the 1960s, also will play there.
Frampton, best known for his eight-times-platinum 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive,” says on his website that he’ll play the event center on July 17.
Joining him will be The Doobie Brothers, who in the 1970s had more than a dozen Top 40 hits and sold 20 million albums, including 10 million copies of its 1976 “Best of the Doobies.” The Doobie Brothers also has the show on its website, http://www.doobiebros.com.
The show has not been announced by the event center, and no information on ticket prices or on-sale times is listed on either performer’s website. Their sites show them playing 11 shows together this summer.
The event center did announce Monday The Monkees will play there at 8 p.m. May 27. The show will be part of the venue’s second anniversary month, which now has 30 events scheduled, highlighted by sold-out shows by The Killers and Guns N’ Roses.
Tickets for The Monkees, at $45 to $75, go on sale 10 a.m. Friday at http://www.sandseventcenter.com, the event center box office, http://www.Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and by phone at 800-745-3000.
Frampton headlined Musikfest last year with B.B. King. Frampton also played at Sands Bethlehem Casino Resort’s Musik at the Sands series in 2011, and played Penn’s Peak near Jim Thorpe in 2010.
“Frampton Comes Alive” was the biggest-selling live album for more than 20 years until Garth Brooks’ “Double Live” passed it in 1998. It spawned the hits “Show Me the Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do?”
Frampton also had a platinum No. 2 album with 1977’s “I’m In You.” In all, he’s had four gold or platinum albums and nine Top 20 hits. He also co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie.
The Doobie Brothers had the hits “Long Train Runnin’,” “China Grove,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “It Keeps You Runnin’,” “Minute by Minute” and the No. 1 “What a Fool Believes.”
Its most recent album, 2010’s “World Gone Crazy,” was its first Top 40 in more than 20 years.
The Doobie Brothers played at Penn’s Peak in July, and at Musikfest in 2010. The group also played Easton’s State Theater in 2009.
The Monkees in less than five years together produced 11 platinum and eight gold albums and had 12 Top 40 singles from 1966 to 1971. The group features three original members: Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork. One of the group’s lead singers, Davy Jones, died in February 2012 at age 66.
The group’s other members reunited for a 12-date tour late that year that stopped at Keswick Theater in Glenside.
The Monkees, who also starred in an NBC-TV series of the same name, had six singles that went gold and five that hit No. 1, including “I’m a Believer” and “Not Your Steppin’ Stone.” Four of its albums also went to No. 1.
In 1967, The Monkees outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Then in 1986, reruns of “The Monkees” on MTV reignited the group’s popularity, prompted a 20th anniversary tour and a new album, “Then and Now,” which hit the Billboard Top 20. A 1996 album, “Justus,” also hit the Top 200.
Dolenz will play a solo show at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest on July 31.
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