Creem Profiles
CHEAP TRICK
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)


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HOME: Cheap tricks always stay in cheap hotels.
AGE: As follows: Rick—cartoon stage; Robin—all grown-up and going to boy/girl parties; Tom—achieving gonadic maturity; Bun E.—full Rotary Club membership.
PROFESSION: Ex-stock boys, pin setters, and teenage waitress pinchers; now professional pick-spitting poseurs.
HOBBIES: Vacationing near nuclear test sites; scraping solidified sweat from concert hall floors for use making records; forcefully clothing every man, woman and,child in America with their t-shirt garments; sending away for Christian marital aids, f C
LAST BOOK READ: Son Of Stan Lee by the Mad Peck.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Slept together in one bed without any evidence of lunar secretions. .
QUOTE: “Nick Lowe likes us. You will, too!”
PROFILE: Obscuro riff-raff with a penchant for audio-tweaking , pubescent breasts, these guys still twitch with deep-seated claustrophobia from their 6.2 million consecutive cookie box concerts. A true personification of the odds ’n’ sodomies school of Mungo Jerryism set to electrical outlets. Hubba hubba.
BEER: Boy Howdy!