“You hear voices in your head or somebody’s messing with your brain. Somebody, your mind’s eye, has some talking to do to you”: The power-pop classic that finally turned four Chicago misfits into 70s rock superstars

Cheap Trick posing for a photograph in the late 1970s.

Following up 1978’s career-changing At Budokan was never going to be much of a problem for Cheap Trick – given that they’d actually recorded the material for Dream Police before their live album was released.

“Dream Police was ready to go when …Budokan came out,” guitarist Rick Nielsen said. “We held it back because …Budokan was so successful.”