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 ...

For the historic rock band Cheap Trick, their biggest hit in the U.S. started off as a track they didn’t even want to record. Luckily, they eventually got it together and released the song, which ...

The first time Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen heard "The Flame," in 1987, he ripped the songwriters' cassette out of the boom box it was playing on and threw it across the room in a Los Angeles recording ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1988 Rock Song ‘The Flame’ Became Cheap Trick’s Only No. 1 Hit and Remains a Classic 38 Years Later Thirty-eight years after it ...