Cheap Trick- Dream Police 45th- Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander 9-16

By the time of Cheap Trick’s September 1979 Dream Police, the Rockford IL quartet had already released three highly regarded but largely ignored studio albums, including the brilliant 1978 Heaven Tonight. Yet it was a live recording, intended for release only in Japan, that set up Cheap Trick so well for the first nine months of 1979 that the Dream Police punch line was tee’d up for platinum success.

Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander are In the Studio to recall how the band went from clubs to concert headliners and the #6-seller on Billboard album chart forty-five years ago because of the songs “”Way of the World”, “Gonna Raise Hell”, “Voices”, and “Dream Police” the week of September 16. -Redbeard