The guitarist was with Bowie for his successful 1987 Glass Spider World Tour . The cabin of their private plane started filling with smoke and the plane stopped. Bowie picked Frampton up out of his seat to bring him down the chute to safety. (dailymail)
David Bowie once picked his guitarist and old school friend Peter Frampton up and carried him out of the smoke-filled cabin of his private plane.
In a memoir due to be published in October, rocker Frampton, 69, reveals Bowie - a 'lovely man' who he first met when they went to school together in Bromley, south east London - saved him twice.
Bowie chose his old friend to play the guitar on his 1987 Glass Spider World Tour and album as a broke Frampton struggled to launch a career comeback, The Sunday Mirror reports.
The second, more dramatic encounter, was as the pair settled down in the cabin of one of the private planes used to cart the musicians between venues.
As the plane crossed the tarmac smoke began billowing into the cabin, causing a shocked Bowie to leap out of his seat and shout 'Smoke, Smoke', Frampton says.
'The pilot stops and Dave literally lifts me out of my seat and carries me down the chute,' he added.
'I will never forget that. He coulda ran out but he wanted to make sure I was okay.
'That was the kind of guy he was with me, and in general. He was a lovely man.'
Last year Frampton revealed the incurable condition came on subtly, starting around eight years ago when he found his legs couldn't handle a hike as easily as before.