In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Legend has it ...

Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen couldn't find the guitars he liked in his parents' music store in Rockford, Ill. So he started scouring newspaper want ads and scouting music stores in Iowa City, Keokuk and ...

Cheap Trick went from hard-working, well-respected journeymen rockers to chart-toppers in the blink of an eye in 1988 with their song “The Flame.” It took a little bit of compromise and ...

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 ...

More for You Carney tells Trump: Canada 'won't be for sale ever' A boomer couldn't retire on $1,428 a month in Social Security, so she moved to France for cheaper rent and a vibrant social life: ...