CHEAP TRICK - 'Sick Man Of Europe' Video Available
August 12, 2009, 14 years ago
Spinner reports:
CHEAP TRICK's new single, 'Sick Man Of Europe,' which is taken from the band's just-released album, The Latest, is a lean slice of hard-hitting power pop, bristling with the kind of edgy vitality usually credited to a young band with a reputation to make.
But, then, that's exactly what the song is about. 'Sick Man Of Europe' was actually the name for a nascent Cheap Trick, formed around 1971, and numbering guitarist Rick Nielsen, drummer Bun E. Carlos, bassist Tom Petersson and singer Stewkey from THE NAZZ.
"It's a bit of our history," Nielsen tells Spinner. "Tom and I were living in Europe, after leaving the American pop scene, of which there was none.""It was such an intriguing set of words," he says of the band name. "To me, 'Sick Man Of Europe' conjures up stuff, but no one else thought so much of it. Every time people asked 'What's the name of your band?' it'd be 'What?' How can you take the world's worst band name and turn it into something?"
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