In adolescent terms, we all owe Cheap Trick a couple of year’s worth of summer allowances for a job well done. Of all the American bands that first reached out to us from the pages of Circus and CREEM ...

How did Cheap Trick become famous? Cheap Trick was formed in 1973. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Cheap Trick started performing at bowling allies and small concert venues around the band’s ...

The Dragway 42 Music Festival in July has added Cheap Trick to an eclectic lineup featuring Big & Rich, Ted Nugent, Warrant and Steven Adler, the original drummer of Guns N' Roses. Dragway 42 is in ...

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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 released in ...

Cheap Trick formed in the mid-'70s in Illinois with a bag of power-pop tricks cribbed from bands like the Beatles and Badfinger. But guitarist Rick Nielsen was also a fan and student of the era's ...

Among the many artists expected to perform at next year’s concerts are Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen and Daxx Nielsen, The Bangles’ Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson, Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s, Garbage ...

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 ...

Cheap Trick is playing Metro to wrap up the music club’s yearlong 40th-anniversary celebrations. According to an announcement Tuesday, Rockford’s own Cheap Trick will perform July 16. Tickets go on ...

In January, a star-studded assembly of musicians will take part in the return of Freezing Man, a two-night benefit concert for the epilepsy-oriented non-profit organization Joey’s Song. Set to stage ...