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June 17, 2003

Cheap Trick Deliver "Special"

First studio album in six years due in July
February 23, 2001

Corgan on Cheap Trick Album

Slash, Billy Corgan, Art Alexakis pay tribute to Cheap Trick
November 3, 1998

No Surrender

Cheap Trick aren't begging anyone to want them anymore, but people do just the same
April 20, 1998

Live Review: Cheap Trick

Roseland Ballroom, New York, April 18, 1998

Recordings and Reviews

The Essential Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick had no command of the "deep and meaningless," as Robert Plant once put it, and thus could not generate the mystery of Led Zeppelin. And they had a fitful command of the deep and meaningful, making only occasional attempts at sociological commentary that had a satiric edge closer to the C...

2004 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Cheap Trick [1997]

1997

Sex, America, Cheap Trick

1996

Woke Up With a Monster

1994

Busted

1990

Lap Of Luxury

1988

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The enduring, hard-touring, and self-caricaturing rock group Cheap Trick worked its way up to platinum sales with a blend of Beatles-style pop, hard rock chops, and a cartoonish stage act, which played Rick Nielsen's exaggerated mugging and guitar gymnastics against Robin Zander's teen-idol looks and rich, powerful voice.

In 1961 Nielsen, then in his teens, began playing locally in Rockford,...

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