After 1977, Cheap Trick would never be a bar band again. But what a bar band they were. These wildly varied sets include not only most of the band’s first and second albums but a pair of songs ...

Cheap Trick would introduce refinements like piano and harpsichord on their next studio albums, but the band onstage ... to briefly nosedive with a flubbed first chorus. If the Cheap Trick heard ...

Their first rebranding happened between 1972 ... kickstarted by their debut album in 1977. Cheap Trick not only shared stages with rock powerhouses such as the Kinks, Queen, KISS, AC/DC and ...

In 2017, Cheap Trick released WE’RE ALL ALRIGHT! and CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS. The former album’s first single “Long Time Coming” enjoyed an unprecedented run of 14 weeks at No. 1 on the ...

Cheap Trick opened its 14-song set with the driving ... down blues which would’ve worked on John Lennon’s first solo album. It was one of the few bits of stage patter.

Illinois-born rock band Cheap Trick first started releasing music in the 1970s, when their debut self-titled album came out. By the 1980s, songs like “I Want You to Want Me” (originally ...

They had enjoyed a stretch as one of the biggest rock bands in the world with the one-two punch of the 1978 live album ... Cheap Trick, but actually doing it was almost a bridge too far. They ...