Cheap Trick to play on Conan in midst of career second-wind
July 27th, 2009 at 10:44am Georgette Braun
On the inaugural show of “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” on June 1, O’Brien “ran” from New York City, where his former late-night show broadcast from, to Los Angeles, his new base city, while Cheap Trick’s “Surrender” hit played in its entirety.
On Sept. 1, the 35-year-old, Rockford-based power popsters who are in the midst of a busy second wind in their career, will play a song off their latest album, “The Latest,” on O’Brien’s show, according to the quartet’s Web site. The song, “Sick Man of Europe,” rocks more than pops, thank you very much.
Cheap Trick will be winding down in California that week from a summer tour with Def Leppard. Then it’s on to Las Vegas. At the Las Vegas Hilton, band members will “take on one of the most ambitious projects of their career - performing what is perhaps rock’s most iconic album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, according to glidemagazine.com.
The show runs for nine nights Sept. 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23. Tickets cost $65 to $95.
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1. Georgette Braun | July 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am
My colleague, Chuck Sweeny, informs me of this:
Sick Man of Europe was the name of one of the bands Rick was in. (The term refers to the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after World War I and led to the creation by the League of Nations of the various Middle Eastern nations we know today.)
Thanks for the insight, Chuck.
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