🎸 **FREE! Cheap Trick - All Washed Up Tour @ Humphries By The Bay!** **Cheap Trick** is an American rock band formed in [Rockford, Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford,_Illinois "Rockford, Illinois"), in 1973. The band's work bridged elements of 1960s guitar pop, 1970s [hard rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock "Hard rock"), and the emerging [punk rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock "Punk rock") sound, and helped set the template for subsequent [power pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_pop "Power pop") artists.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick#cite_note-Allmusicbio-4) Cheap Trick released its [self-titled debut album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick_(1977_album) "Cheap Trick (1977 album)") in 1977. Later that year, the band found success in Japan with the release of its second album, *[In Color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Color_(Cheap_Trick_album) "In Color (Cheap Trick album)")*. In 1979, the band released the [triple-platinum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_certification "RIAA certification") live album *[At Budokan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick_at_Budokan "Cheap Trick at Budokan")* and a Top 10 single, a live recording of "[I Want You to Want Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_You_to_Want_Me "I Want You to Want Me")".[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick#cite_note-5) The band followed with its most commercially successful studio album, *[Dream Police](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Police "Dream Police")* (1979), which reached No. 6 on the *[Billboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200 "Billboard 200")*[ 200](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200 "Billboard 200") chart.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick#cite_note-albums-6) After experiencing declining popularity in the 1980s, Cheap Trick enjoyed a major resurgence toward the end of the decade, topping the US charts with the [power…