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Cheap Trick: Wake Up, Rick – You're The First Superstar of the '80s

Nick Kent, NME, 8 September 1979

LET'S NOT mince words. The basic premise here is the why, wherefores and whatevers backing up the simple contention that within the next 12 months Cheap Trick will be the biggest rock band on Planet Earth.

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