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CHEAP TRICK CONTINUES TO BRING YOU THE LATEST WITH…

CHEAP TRICK CONTINUES TO BRING YOU THE LATEST WITH…

The #1 Selling 8-Track in the World.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Performance on September 1st.

Sgt. Pepper Live DVD & CD to Benefit Prostate Cancer Foundation out August 25th.

Cheap Trick’s new self-released album – The Latest – continues to impress listeners as it takes the honor of the #1 selling 8-track in the world. The limited edition format is available exclusively through the band’s website. “In the format, it makes sense,”proclaims Idolator. “The riffs crackle, Robin Zander’s voice sounds nearly curdled, and the whole enterprise brings the words ‘kick ass’ to mind over and over again. (I know, I know, not the most erudite assessment, but when one gets bludgeoned, it’s often hard to sound smart in the immediate aftermath.)”

On September 1st, Cheap Trick heads to LA to perform the new single “Sick Man of Europe”on The Tonight Show with Conan OiBrien. A big fan of the band, you may remember Conan sprinting across the United States during his premiere episode opening while the Cheap Trick classic “Surrender” played. watch here: http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/cold-open-of-the-first-show/1116061/

On December 12th, 2007, Cheap Trick Performed Sgt. Pepper Live at the The Waldorf Astoria in New York City for the Prostate Cancer Foundation Charity Concert & Auction. A live DVD and CD of this performance are scheduled for release on August 25th with all artist proceeds from sales to benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Special guests Joan Osborne, Ian Bell of Gomez, singer-songwriter Rob Laufer and an Indian instrumental ensemble, lend their talents to the cause. Geoff Emerick, who engineered the original album in 1967 and engineered Cheap Trick’s All Shook Up with George Martin for Epic in 1980, oversaw all elements of the recording and mixing.

Sgt. Pepper Live featuring Cheap Trick originated in 2007 when the band was invited to be special guests of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of the 40th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band record release. The concert was reprised the following year and the shows sold over 50,000 tickets combined. At these shows, as at The Waldorf, the band performed a track-by-track rendition with the orchestra, an Indian ensemble and an array of very special guests. Michael Milken, founder and chairman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, was at one of the Los Angeles shows and invited the band to re-create the event for his legendary holiday fundraiser in New York City.

For more information on the foundation, please visit www.prostatecancerfoundation.org.

photos by LILY SELEME – Tower MN 7/26/09

Photos by KIYOKO TSUCHIYA – Tower MN-7/26/09

photos by EMILY EASTERLING – Clarkston MI 7/24/09

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News & Links for Late July 2009

The Onion – album review: http://www.avclub.com/articles/cheap-trick,30594/

Tulsa World – album review http://www.tulsaworld.com/Scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20090727_270_D3_hCheap475810

Isthmus (Madison) – live review: http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26503

Decider (Madison) - live review http://madison.decider.com/articles/cheap-trick-at-barrymore-theatre,30949/

New Yorker – album review http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2009/07/27/090727gore_GOAT_recordings_greenman

Blurt – album review: http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/1327/

Paste - news item http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/07/cheap-tricks-latest-available-on-8-track.html

Flint Journal (MI) – feature preview: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2009/07/are_they_talking_about_us_wond.html

Wisconsin State Journal – feature preview http://77square.com/music/features/story_459402

Nuvo Newsweekly (Indianapolis) – feature preview http://nuvo.net/music/article/cheap-trick-recording-new-albums-releasing-them-8-track

All Music Guide – album review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifrxzuald6e

Boston Globe - 8-track coverage http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/07/24/on_our_minds_and_on_our_playlists/

Decider Madison – preview http://madison.decider.com/events/cheap-trick-john-masino-band-and-the-rousers,105049/

ArtVoice (Buffalo) – album review: http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n30/lotd/cheap_trick

RiverFront Times (St. Louis) – live review:http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2009/07/show_review_photos_setlist_2009…

St. Petersburg Times – Pop Life blog http://blogs.tampabay.com/popmusic/2009/07/from-cheap-tricks-latest-album-heres-new-song-sick-man-of-europe.html

Sound Opinions – album review http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2009/071709/shownotes.html

Salt Lake City Weekly – blog http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-1286-americas-greatest-band-cheap-trick.html

All Access – album review http://www.allaccessmagazine.com/vol7/issue09/cheap-trick.html

Bun E. Carlos Interviewed for “Zildjian Behind the Scenes”

Rick Nielsen on Dick Biondi – WLS, Chicago – 7/22

Rick Nielsen will be interviewed on the Dick Biondi show on 94.7 WLS-FM Chicago radio on July 22, 2009 at approximately 8:00pm CST.

UPDATED – Here’s the audio link: http://www.947chicago.com/sectional.asp?id=28114 and also some pix! http://www.947chicago.com/PhotoWall.asp?id=55410

Rick Nielsen Podcast for Military.com

Rick Nielsen Podcast for Military.com:
http://podcasts.military.com/2009/07/the-long-march-with-cheap-tricks-rick-nielsen.html

CHEAP TRICK IN-STORE JULY 25, 2009

The band will be signing copies of The Latest on Saturday, July 25 at 3:00pm at Best Buy in Downers Grove, IL. Best Buy is located at 1432 Butterfield Rd, Downers Grove IL 60516.
Please do not bring any memorabilia or other items – the band will only sign copies of The Latest.

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Rick and Robin stop by WLS in Chicago

July 16, 2009 was another “radio media day” – Rick and Robin stopped by WLS in Chicago and appeared on the Roe Conn Show. They also managed to sneak in a meet & greet with the legendary Dick Biondi. ALL PHOTOS BY DAVE FREY

CHEAP TRICK PERFORMS ON WBEZ – CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO

Cheap Trick performed “Sick Man of Europe,” “These Days,” and “Surrender” for a broadcast on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. The segment will air on July 16,2009 from 9-10am CST, with a rebroadcast from 8-9pm CST. UPDATE: here’s the audio link: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35576

The Wikipedia Files – Episode 6 – Cheap Trick from WBEZ on Vimeo.

photos by SUE ZISHOCK – Holmdel – 7/1/09

Rick with Buddy Guy, June 2009

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photos by GERRI ACRI – 7/10/09 – Burgettstown, PA

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