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Cheap Trick's conquest of Japan

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 20 May 1979

THE TRADITION of American musicians and artists going to Britain or the European continent in search of more responsive audiences is a venerable one. Spirits as diverse as saxophonist Dexter Gordon and leather-clad rocker Suzi Quatro have thrived across the Atlantic at times when their native country wouldn't or couldn't nurture them. But Japan? That's ridiculous.

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