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 ...

In 1988, Cheap Trick marked its 15th anniversary as a band. In that decade-and-a-half, the group became established stars, followed by a period of decline, only to experience a resurgence thanks to ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Legend has it ...

One thing you can say about Cheap Trick: After five decades of making music, the Rockford, Illinois, quartet has been pretty consistent. There have been a few slight detours along the way, such as in ...

View post: 1950 Outlaw-Couple Thriller Now Holds a 91% Score on Rotten Tomatoes, Decades After Being Dismissed as a B-Movie In 1988, Cheap Trick marked its 15th anniversary as a band. In that ...

These days, you can be a long-running, extremely popular mainstream rock band without ever coming close to the pop charts with a single. That certainly wasn’t the case in the 70s and 80s, when record ...

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 ...