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Coney comes alive! Frampton will play on July 31

Coney comes alive! Frampton will play on July 31

Do you — you! — feel like we do?

You should, because legendary guitarist Peter Frampton will play a free concert on Thursday, July 31 in Coney Island.

Yes, the man behind the talking six-string who turned the mid-1970s into a celebration of wah-wah pedals, long hair, guitar jams and the effervescent possibility of free love has signed on as part of Borough President Markowitz’s “Seaside Summer Concert Series” at Asser Levy Park.

Frampton was huge in his native England — huge, but still a teenager, when he formed the band Humble Pie in 1969 — but didn’t break into the American consciousness until “Frampton Comes Alive,” the 1976 concert album still regarded by many as the greatest live recording ever made.

From that double album came many of Frampton’s best-remembered hits: “Something’s Happening,” “(I Want You To) Show me the Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way,” “Do You Feel Like We Do” and “Doobie Wah.”

1970s rock god Peter Frampton will perform in Coney Island as part of Marty Markowitz’s free concert series on July 31.

It also froze his artistic reputation in a miasma of ’70s kitsch, but Frampton remains a working artist to this day (though less frequently likely to pose for an album cover conveniently missing his shirt).

The July 31 show will also include a set by Starship, a creaky power pop band that claims some distant familial connection to the original Jefferson Airplane, though the current lineup was long gone by the time Marty Balin and Grace Slick had beamed away from the Jefferson Starship.

Then again, who doesn’t want to hear Mickey Thomas sing “Jane” on a hot summer night?

For info about Markowitz’s concert series, call (718) 222-0600 or visit www.brooklynconcerts.com.

Frampton was in his heyday during the jumpin’ 1970s.