Peter Frampton says that a promise of a Paul McCartney appearance is what persuaded him to act in the legendary film flop Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Frampton reminisced about the movie on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, “I was told by (producer) Robert Stigwood that Paul McCartney was going to be the savior of the Heartland. When Stigwood said, ‘Paul is going to be in the movie,’ I said, ‘Really! Well, if a Beatle's going to be in the movie, he's sanctioned it, then it can't be bad'...
“I fly out to Los Angeles, I go to the first meeting out there, no Paul McCartney. So I was lied to. Then I realized from the first day of shooting, oh this was a disaster. I didn't walk because I would have been sued to high hell. But we all hated being in that movie.”
Frampton starts another leg of his Never Say Never tour on March 3rd, but no Texas dates announced yet.