At Budokan (Cheap Trick album)

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At Budokan

Live album by Cheap Trick
Released	1979
Recorded	April 28, 1978, at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
Genre	Rock
Length	42:27
Label	Epic
Producer(s)	Cheap Trick
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Cheap Trick chronology
Heaven Tonight (1978)	At Budokan (1979)	Dream Police (1979)

At Budokan is a live album recorded by Cheap Trick in 1978.

Illinois rock band Cheap Trick was huge in Japan before they were popular anywhere else. They cashed in on this popularity by recording At Budokan in Japan on April 28, 1978 (see 1978 in music) with hordes of screaming young Japanese girls nearly drowning out the band at times. This album (which appeared in Japan many months before being issued in the U. S. where it had sold briskly as a Japanese import, and which was issued with a concert program in both English and Japanese) broke the band into global pop stardom with their first hits. The hit single "I Want You to Want Me" reached number seven on the Billboard charts, and was the group's biggest hit at the time. "Ain't That a Shame" also charted, reaching number 35. Epic Records, 1979 (see 1979 in music). The album also introduced Tom Petersson's composition "Need Your Love" (the band had just finished recording their fourth album Dream Police, thus a studio version of "Need Your Love" would be included on that album).

The album was re-released in 1998 as At Budokan: the Complete Concert, remastered and fully restored to include all the concert tracks left off of the original album.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 430 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.