Editing Cheap Trick (section)

===Budokan brings success (1978–1980)===
When Cheap Trick toured in Japan for the first time in April 1978, they were received with a frenzy reminiscent of [[Beatlemania]].<ref name="rsbio">{{cite magazine |title=Cheap Trick Biography |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/cheap-trick/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505003139/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/cheap-trick/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 5, 2013|access-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref> During the tour, Cheap Trick recorded two concerts at the [[Nippon Budokan]]. Ten tracks taken from both shows were compiled and released as a live album titled ''[[Cheap Trick at Budokan]]'',<ref name="LarkinHR"/> which was intended to be exclusive to Japan.<ref name="rsdp">{{cite magazine|last=Marsh|first=Dave|title=Cheap Trick: Dream Police|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=305 |date=November 29, 1979 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/dream-police-19791129|access-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref>

The band's third studio album, ''[[Heaven Tonight]]'' was released in May 1978.<ref name="LarkinHR"/> The lead-off track "[[Surrender (Cheap Trick song)|Surrender]]" was Cheap Trick's first single to chart in the United States, peaking at No.&nbsp;62. It has gone on to become one of the band's signature songs.
[[File:Cheaptrick1.jpg|thumb|left|Zander and Petersson performing in 1978]]
Demand for ''Cheap Trick at Budokan'' became so great that Epic Records finally released the album in the U.S. in February 1979.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} ''Cheap Trick at Budokan'' launched the band into international stardom, and the album went [[triple platinum]] in the United States.<ref name="rsbio"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Cheap Trick – At Budokan (album) |publisher=SwissCharts.com |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?key=40527&cat=a |access-date=November 10, 2007}}</ref> The first single from the album was the live version of "I Want You to Want Me", which had originally been released on ''In Color''. It reached No.&nbsp;7 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], and became Cheap Trick's best-selling single to date.<ref name="billboard.com">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/cheap-trick|title=Cheap Trick|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref> The second single, "[[Ain't That a Shame]]", peaked at No.&nbsp;35. "[[Need Your Love (Cheap Trick song)|Need Your Love]]" had already been recorded for the forthcoming ''[[Dream Police]]'' album that had already been finished, but after the unprecedented success of ''Cheap Trick at Budokan'', Epic postponed the album's release.

''Dream Police'' was released later in 1979,<ref name="LarkinHR"/> and was their third album in a row produced by Tom Werman. The [[Dream Police (song)|title track]] of the album was a hit single, as was "[[Voices (Cheap Trick song)|Voices]]". ''Dream Police'' also found the band taking its style in a more experimental direction by incorporating strings and dabbling in [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] on tracks like "Gonna Raise Hell". By 1980, Cheap Trick was headlining arenas.

On August 26, 1980, Petersson left the group to record a solo album with his wife Dagmar,<ref name="LarkinHR"/> using the band name Another Language. [[Jon Brant]] became Petersson's steady replacement, after a year of Cheap Trick touring and recording with Pete Comita.<ref name="LarkinHR"/>

''[[All Shook Up (Cheap Trick album)|All Shook Up]]'' (1980), produced by former Beatles producer [[George Martin]],<ref name="LarkinHR"/> reached No.&nbsp;24 on the charts and was certified gold. However, the album's high-class background did not save it from descriptions like "[[Led Zeppelin]] gone psycho".<ref name="fricke">{{cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |title=Cheap Trick: All Shook Up  |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=339 |date=March 19, 1981 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/all-shook-up-19810319 |access-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref>