A song can only do so much on its own in its quest to become a hit single. The recording of the song needs to rise to the occasion and maximize the potential within the words and music. “I Want You To ...

You can’t beat the price for a Cheap Trick concert at the New York State Fair. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band performed at the NYS Fair’s Chevy Court stage on Thursday night, delivering a ...

Cheap Trick is bringing its hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender" to the Brown County Music Center in Nashville, Indiana Sunday, Dec. 8. The concert is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.

Get ready, Shreveport! Cheap Trick is hitting the stage at Margaritaville on March 6, 2026, promising a night filled with ...

Cheap Trick, the rock band hailing from Illinois, has been performing for over five decades, releasing hits like “I Want You to Want Me”, “Dream Police”, “The Flame”, and “Surrender.” The band ...

Illinois-born rock band Cheap Trick first started releasing music in the 1970s, when their debut self-titled album came out. By the 1980s, songs like “I Want You to Want Me” (originally released in ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As a band that has toured on a consistent annual basis ever since forming in Rockford, Ill., in 1973, it ...

In 1979, Cheap Trick had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with an unlikely song. The track, “I Want You to Want Me,” was one of the Illinois rock band’s biggest songs ...

Life happens to you when you’re busy making other plans,’ John Lennon once sang. And never in a million years could Cheap Trick have imagined how their career would be transformed as the result of a ...

I used to consider the label "classic-rock" a pejorative, a backhanded way of saying a band has nothing more to say — or, at least, nothing more worth hearing. Often when a band is several decades ...

Classic rock icons Cheap Trick are known for many things — infectious tunes, tongue-in-cheek humor, and Rick Nielsen’s wild guitar antics and original drummer Bun E. Carlos’ anachronistically cool ...