The first time Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen heard "The Flame," in 1987, he ripped the songwriters' cassette out of the boom box it was playing on and threw it across the room in a Los Angeles recording ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Legend has it ...

Cheap Trick went from hard-working, well-respected journeymen rockers to chart-toppers in the blink of an eye in 1988 with their song “The Flame.” It took a little bit of compromise and ...

Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen couldn't find the guitars he liked in his parents' music store in Rockford, Ill. So he started scouring newspaper want ads and scouting music stores in Iowa City, Keokuk and ...

Since the '70s, the band Cheap Trick has been blending elements of pop, punk and even metal in a way that is instantly catchy and recognizable. With timeless classics such as “I Want You to Want Me,” ...

Forty years on, Cheap Trick refuses to surrender to the temptation to slow down. The legendary quartet is touring steadily, and has a Nov. 21 stop planned at the Montbleu Resort Casino & Spa in ...