Are all you 60's and 70's babies ready for some feel good, get-up-on-your-feet, rock and dance tunes? Well, do I have a concert for you. Sir Rod "Do You Think I'm Sexy" Stewart and the rock band Cheap Trick are coming to the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Connecticut! The concert will take place on Wednesday August, 30, 2023 at 7:30 pm!
"In early 1966 a young Rod Stewart "found his way into the Jeff Beck Group as a vocalist and occasional songwriter and continued to tour with them around Europe and hit the United States in June 1968." By late August the group released their first album “Truth,” but despite it’s widespread success the band fell apart and by October 1968 Stewart signed a solo contract with Mercury Records by his 1971 released the album “Every Picture Tells a Story” that really started to get his career on an upward spiral. With another album under his belt, by 1975 Stewart made the move to Los Angeles, California and released “Atlantic Crossing.” He reached the pivotal point in his career three years later with the release of the iconic “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” single, despite all of the criticisms about the lyrics."
"As the times changed so did Stewart’s style; taking on a more new wave direction in the 80s. Unfortunately this resulted in mixed reviews of the albums that he released during this time. However things went back to stable with his 1988 release of “Out of Order” which had such hits as “Forever Young,” “Crazy About You,” and “My Heart Can’t Tell You No.” His following albums charted just as high and by 1994 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.” Taken from the Song Kick website.
Cheap Trick is a 70's rock and roll band from Rockford, Illinois, that was formed in early 1973 by lead guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, lead singer Robin Zander and on drums, Bun E. Carlos. "The current lineup of the band consists of Zander, Nielsen and Petersson. "Their work bridged elements of '60s guitar pop, hard rock, and punk rock, and would help set the template for subsequent power pop artists. Cheap Trick released their self-titled debut album in 1977 and, later that year, found success in Japan with the release of their second album, In Color. 1978's Heaven Tonight included the power pop classic "Surrender". The band achieved mainstream popularity in the United States in 1979 with the triple-platinum live album At Budokan and a Top 10 single, a live recording of "I Want You to Want Me." They followed with Dream Police (1979), their most commercially successful studio album, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 1988, they hit big once again on the US charts their song "The Flame" was their first ballad to hit the top of the charts, according to Wikipedia.
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