![]() ![]() But it suited the songs, which represented the band’s live set at the time. But the raw feel of the performances gave the songs an extra frisson. The band’s debut album, with producer Jack Douglas at the helm, had a rougher approach than we’d come to expect from them in later years. ![]() Their distinctive image was the sum of two duos: Zander and Petersson were the pretty boys Nielsen and Carlos were the wacky looking pair. The latter didn’t stay long, ousted in favour of Robin Zander. By 1973 they’d become Cheap Trick, adding drummer Bun E. ![]() One album for Epic proved unsuccessful, as did a name change to Sick Man Of Europe and a relocation to Philadelphia. It started in 1968 with the band Fuse, with guitarist Rick Nielsen (very much the main songwriter) and bassist Tom Petersson. Seriously, Cheap Trick were prepared to take the piss out of themselves and everyone else, while crafting songs so hummable that if writing memorable hooks were an offence they’d have been locked up with no chance of parole. Blessed with an innate sense of melody and an irreverent sense of buffoonery, Cheap Trick were almost seen as punk rock, certainly when compared to the AOR behemoths who dominated the US charts in the 1970s. Without the loveable moptops there would never have been a Cheap Trick – and without the band from Rockford, Illinois, what we now call pop-rock probably would have been a very different animal too. ![]()
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