Life happens to you when you’re busy making other plans,’ John Lennon once sang. And never in a million years could Cheap Trick have imagined how their career would be transformed as the result of a ...

After a decade-long slump that culminated in 1994's widely ignored Woke Up With A Monster, Cheap Trick began to look to its own past for the inspiration that was lacking on albums like Busted, The ...

Within months of the release of Cheap Trick’s initial eponymous album, the then Illinois-based band made its Spokane debut. The start of Cheap Trick’s long live history with Spokane commenced in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Rick Nielsen of ...

These days, classic rock bands measure their relevance not by the creative health of their recent output, but by the success of their transition into memes. From Blue Oyster Cult becoming synonymous ...

There are few, if any, American rock bands in Cheap Trick’s league. The veteran Midwestern Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, now celebrating 47years together, sound as inspired on this 20 th studio album ...

One thing you can say about Cheap Trick: After five decades of making music, the Rockford, Illinois, quartet has been pretty consistent. There have been a few slight detours along the way, such as in ...

It’s safe to say that more than one voracious music fan has found themselves thinking they might have been more careful in what they’d wished for: Experience has shown this recovering superfan that, ...

"I Want You to Want Me" became Cheap Trick's breakout hit in 1979, thanks to a live version recorded at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan a year earlier. But according to singer ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cheap Trick is one of that handful of bands whose name says it all. Kicking around for nearly 50 years now, the quartet from Rockford, Ill., has made a singular sound, straddling ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — Cheap Trick is well-known around the world, and the iconic band got its start in Rockford. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers released their 21st album, 'All Washed Up,' and record ...