Humble Pie

A&M, 1970

Nicknamed the ‘Beardsley Album’, after the Aubrey Beardsley illustration on the cover, the band’s first album under a new deal with A&M was the official relaunch of Humble Pie – and a big step away from its more self-consciously loose predecessor. From the river-deep blues of Live With Me, to the cock-of-the-walk strut of One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba, the lite-rock whimsy of Earth And Water Song (written by Frampton in the style that would later transform his solo career) and the big rock drama of Red Light Mama, Red Hot!, this was the firing-on-all-cylinders sound that would shake America.