Today We Celebrate... Cheap Trick

Time to rock out, Grinder people. We don't need no country weeping, no pop star love songs or rappers yelling about their bling. We just need some good ol' Rock n' Roll. Today, that's Cheap Trick.


Here's the band doing "The Dream Police," at the Chicagofest in '81, replete with Rick Nielsen's trademark triple guitar work as an introduction. Sick, sick, stuff -- in the best possible way



Alex Chilton wrote it, but you might know Trick's version of "In The Street" a little better.


"Surrender," from 1979, was one of the band's biggest hits. Here's a little bootleg of Green Day ripping it up.




Does it get any better than "Oh, Candy"? No it does not. That was rhetorical.