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Watch Cheap Trick’s “The Best Thing” music video, featuring footage from the band’s return to Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

Cheap Trick were at a crossroads as As the '80s began. After years of building a following and finally reaching major success with the albums At Budokan and Dream Police, things were suddenly changing ...

When Cheap Trick's Found All the Parts EP was released on June 2, 1980, the record closed the book on the band's golden career run of the late '70s. It was a streak in which the Rockford, Ill., ...

Cheap Trick is an American rock ‘n’ roll institution. Formed in Rockford, Illinois in 1973, they were grouped with the era’s reigning arena-rock kingpins by the time they went multi-platinum with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life happens to you when you’re busy making other plans,’ John Lennon once sang. And never in a million years could Cheap Trick ...

Pick any playlist or compilation of Cheap Trick songs, and you’re bound to be blown away by what you hear. This band has always displayed a knack for ear candy with musical heft and lyrical cleverness ...

For more than 50 years, Cheap Trick have been impressing fans with their rock songs, but some are only just learning how the band got their name. The name was inspired at a Slade concert, where ...

They’re all alright. Actually, Cheap Trick sounded more than just OK Sunday at a sold-out Metro, where the veteran band headlined the Wrigleyville venue’s 40th-anniversary celebration finale with a ...

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 ...

Cheap Trick produced one of the best-selling live albums of all time in 1978's At Budokan and crafted power-pop songs — I Want You to Want Me, Surrender, Dream Police — that to this day are etched ...