Thirty-eight years after it reached the top of the charts, Cheap Trick's power ballad "The Flame" remains the band's only No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and one of the defining rock songs of the ...

For the historic rock band Cheap Trick, their biggest hit in the U.S. started off as a track they didn’t even want to record. Luckily, they eventually got it together and released the song, which ...

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 ...

Cheap Trick is an American rock band that rose to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s with their energetic live performances and catchy, guitar-driven power pop songs. With over four decades of ...

Pick any playlist or compilation of Cheap Trick songs, and you’re bound to be blown away by what you hear. This band has always displayed a knack for ear candy with musical heft and lyrical cleverness ...

1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "The Flame," Cheap Trick. By Billboard Staff 2001 – Country songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Johnny Russell dies of complications relating to diabetes in a hospital ...