Coming up….The saga of 4 guys from the heartland of America…Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Bun. E. Carlos and Rick Peterson who slugged it out on the road together, playing gigs all over the country. Cheap Trick was one of the hardest-working bands in the music industry, but after years of touring, they had hardly anything to show for it. They were hitless, a million dollars in debt, and on the verge of disintegration. But then a weird and wonderful thing happened…. they traveled to another continent to play some shows and found out that in one huge country, they were as big as The Beatles!! It changed everything vitally overnight… The story of their unconventional international breakout I Want You to Want Me and their album Cheap Trick Live at Budokan is NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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You know… the usual path to success for a band involves relentless touring, starting from building a local fan base, expanding regionally, and eventually garnering national attention.

At least…that’s the roadmap you try to follow. One of the greatest classic rock bands ever… Cheap Trick, the four-piece outfit who hail from Rockford, Illinois, stuck to this formula diligently. They toured tirelessly for YEARS, striving for that breakthrough moment, but it remained elusive. No matter how many shows they played they could not break through…That is until they ventured to Tokyo to play at Budokan…. and nothing could prepare them for what they would witness…everything went CRAZY!

In August of '73, Cheap Trick settled on their very cool band name. The inspiration struck during a Slade concert, when bassist Tom Petersson remarked on Slade's performance, commenting to his bandmates Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos, commenting that they used "every cheap trick in the book" as part of their act. Before they brought in the charisma of Robin Zander, the original lead singer for Cheap Trick was Randy “Xeno” (zeno) Hogan. In ’75, when Cheap Trick was still considered a bar band, lead scorcher Rick Nielsen was sitting on a big ol’ stuffed chair, listening to the radio when he began to come up with an idea for “I Want You To Want Me,” the song that would fall flat before it unexpectedly broke the band around the world.

While he was listening to the radio, his father came into the room and turned on the TV. Rick was in the mood for one of those classic black-and-white westerns, featuring the character George “Gabby” Hayes who was in a lot of those cowboy movies from the 30s and 40s. Instead of a western, the movie that came on was an old romantic flick depicting the 20s, but Rick doesn’t remember the title. There was a scene in the movie where the characters were dressing up for a night on the town, and it inspired the concept of “I Want You To Want Me,” to capture the partying spirit of the ‘roaring 20s.’ Rick added a line to the middle of his lyrics “I’ll shine up my old brown shoes, put on a brand new shirt,....