How did Cheap Trick become famous? Cheap Trick was formed in 1973. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Cheap Trick started performing at bowling allies and small concert venues around the band’s ...

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 ...

Melding Beatles-esque pop and heavy power chords, Cheap Trick bridged the gap between ’60s pop and the burgeoning punk movement in the ’70s. Their sound remained deeply influential for groups decades ...

Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" has become a classic-rock staple since it was first released as part of In Color in 1977. But it was hardly a sure thing at the time. Producer Tom Werman had an ...

ASHWAUBENON - The classic rock keeps rolling at the Resch Center. Bad Company, with opening acts Cheap Trick and Femmes of Rock, will play a Saturday night show at 7 p.m. Oct. 27. With hits including ...

Brian Beebe — a piano bar-playing institution in the Wisconsin Dells area for decades who was instrumental in the formation of the rock band Cheap Trick — is home recovering from a heart attack and ...