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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Poison has guts. Tabbing Cheap Trick to open for the veteran hair metalists takes some gumption. Cheap Trick stole the show from Bret Michaels and the boys by delivering powerful and ...