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    Cheap and Cheerful

    May 04, 2021 5 minutes
    BY TOM BEAUJOUR

    IT’S BEEN 4 3 YEARS since Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Cheap Trick released their self-titled debut, and on the eve of unveiling their 20th studio offering, In Another World, guitarist Rick Nielsen is all too happy to share the band’s enduring formula for success. “We’ve never progressed and never tried to be something we weren’t,” he says from his home in Rockford, Illinois.

    New tracks like the chugging, riff-driven “Light up the Fire” and overdriven power-pop number “Here’s Looking at You” indicate that Cheap Trick are wise to stay the musical course. It’s a point of view shared by their longtime collaborator, Nashville-based producer Julian Raymond. “Julian happens to be a big Cheap Trick fan, so he’s heard our records more

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