Cheap Trick : Baby Loves To Rock
On October 24, 1980 Cheap Trick released All Shook Up, a dream team effort with Beatles producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick. But if you're looking for Beatlesque numbers, you'll likely be disappointed. With the exception of "World's Greatest Lover", Cheap Trick sounds more like "Led Zeppelin gone psycho", as Rolling Stone's David Fricke wrote in his review, one of the few positive ones the album received.
It didn't help matters that bassist Tom Peterson had just left the band. He would tell Billboard:
We were playing 300 nights a year and we'd record two albums a year on our time off. After awhile, we'd gotten to the point where we were successful, but we were still on this schedule and still doing albums in two or three weeks. We needed more time to think, to air out and encourage the creativity to write. Nobody wanted to do that.
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