Throughout the period covered by these albums, Cheap Trick’s bread-and-butter was the live stage, the goodwill earned from the energy and enthusiasm of the first few releases, the now iconic ...

But guitarist Rick Nielsen was also a fan and student of the era's guitar heroes, so the power in Cheap Trick's power-pop was just as prevalent as the pop. After three albums slowly expanded their ...

Roy Thomas Baker, the revered British record producer who helmed Queen's first four albums and later worked alongside The ...