Article: Grammy nod gives Peter Frampton another day in the sun.

Byline: Len Righi

Peter Frampton, the British guitarist-singer-songwriter who became an arena-rock idol in the mid-1970s, had no qualms about covering the Soundgarden grunge anthem "Black Hole Sun" on his late 2006 all-instrumental "Fingerprints" CD.

"Since I first heard it on the radio, I had to have it. Certain songs you hear give you chills, and that's one of them," says Frampton, a U.S. citizen since 2004, from his home in the Indian Hill suburb east of Cincinnati.

Frampton's version raised enough goosebumps at The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences that both "Black Hole Sun" and "Fingerprints" were nominated this year for ...

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