"We've lasted so long because we were never friends": Fifty years in, Cheap Trick might not hang out with each other, but musical glue binds them together

Cheap Trick and a sofa .

Self-deprecation tends to mask a certain degree of inner confidence. Take Cheap Trick. Apart from providing a sassy throwback to their 1980 triumph, All Shook Up, the title of this year’s All Washed Up could be taken two ways: a band with nothing more to give, or one freshly scrubbed and ready to go.

“That’s exactly the idea,” charismatic frontman Robin Zander tells Classic Rock. “That’s why I liked it. I kind of forced that title down everybody else’s throat.”