Length: Cheap Trick, 1 hour 24 minutes; Rookie, 30 minuts Highlights: Cheap Trick’s “Lookout,” “Ain’t that a Shame,” “The Flame” and “Dream Police;” Rookie’s “Sunglasses” and “Head Over Heels” The ...

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 ...

With a knack for unforgettable hitmaking (“Surrender”) and a weakness for song-doctor capitulation (“The Flame”), these iconic smartasses have always seduced and subverted, remaking the mainstream ...

Cheap Trick played 66 different songs during their four-night Las Vegas residency recently, with only eight repeats among the 84 total tracks. The live run — staged at the city’s STRAT Theater on Feb.

Bass player Tom Petersson admitted when he and the rest of the founding members of Cheap Trick were just starting out in the 1970s, “We never expected a thing. Honestly, it was one day at a time.