Like The Raspberries and Todd Rundgren before them, Cheap Trick worked from ... recorded before Budokan but held back until after promotion of the live album, signalled the start of a change ...

After three albums slowly expanded their increasing fan base, a fluke live album, 'Cheap Trick at Budokan,' originally released only in Japan, became a Top 5 hit in the U.S. They scored only one ...

A live album recorded in Tokyo and designed exclusively for the Japanese market is what gave Cheap Trick their breakthrough in America and the wider world. At Budokan was the making of the band that ...

After releasing three albums without breaking through in the United States, it was the 1978 live album Cheap Trick at Budokan – originally intended only for the Japanese market – that made the ...

A live album recorded in Tokyo and designed exclusively for the Japanese market is what gave Cheap Trick their breakthrough in America and the wider world. At Budokan was the making of the band ...