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Written by: Rick Nielsen
Produced by: Tom Werman
Released: May '78 on Epic
Charts: 8 weeks
Top spot: No. 62
Cheap Trick provided the ultimate Seventies teen anthem in "Surrender," complete with a verse about a kid who catches his parents making out and getting stoned to his Kiss records. How did guitarist-songwriter Nielsen do it? "I [had] to go back and put myself in the head of a fourteen-year-old."
Appears on: Heaven Tonight (Epic)