Cheap Trick

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Cheap Trick

Since first blowing out of Rockford, Illinois, Cheap Trick has never stopped adding to its achievements. They can point to four platinum albums (“Cheap Trick at Budokan” reached triple platinum) and three gold LPs, a number-one single (“The Flame”), seven other Top 40 hits and a video compilation entitled “Every Trick in the Book.” In 1999, Cheap Trick celebrated their 25th anniversary in style. Holding court for 15,000 rabid Cheap Trick fans at Rockford’s Davis Park, the three-hour bash found the band performing  a song from every Cheap Trick album! A number of special guests were on-tap to join in the fun – Billy Corgan, Slash, Art Alexakis and many others. The resulting two-CD set, titled “Silver,” was released to overwhelming critical praise on February 27, 2001. The band also recorded a studio album in 2003, Special One. It was followed in 2006 by Rockford. More recently, in 2016, the guys released Bang, Zoom, Crazy…Hello. Cheap Trick continues to rock out around the world. Legendary band!

Career Path

1977Blasted out of Rockford, Illinois with both the self-titled debut and "In Color" in the same year, planting the power-pop hooks and guitar-versus-melody tension that would define the band's sound.
1978"Cheap Trick at Budokan" exploded into triple-platinum territory, turning a Tokyo concert recording into one of the defining live albums in rock history and introducing the band to a global audience.
1988"The Flame" climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's only chart-topper and one of seven Top 40 hits that cemented their mainstream credibility alongside four platinum and three gold LPs.
1999Drew 15,000 fans to a three-hour outdoor celebration in Rockford's Davis Park for their 25th-anniversary concert, with Billy Corgan, Slash, and Art Alexakis joining onstage for a song from every album in the catalog.
2001Released the double-CD "Silver," capturing the anniversary bash to overwhelming critical praise and giving fans a live document of the band's remarkable catalog breadth.
2016Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and released "Bang, Zoom, Crazy...Hello" on Big Machine Records, the first album with Daxx Nielsen on drums, arriving the same year as the Hall honor.
2021Dropped "In Another World," their twentieth studio album, co-produced by Robin Taylor Zander and Nick Raskulinecz, earning the single "Light Up the Fire" a No. 34 berth on the rock charts.
2023Reunited with Rod Stewart for a co-headlining North American amphitheater run, building on the critical and fan success of their previous pairing in 2022.
2025Joined Rod Stewart's "One Last Time" North American tour as special guests, then announced a separate slate of Fall 2025 headlining dates including state fair appearances.
2025Released "All Washed Up," their twenty-first studio album, produced by Chris Lord Alge and recorded across Nashville and Los Angeles, showing a band still generating new material more than four decades in.

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