Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight (1978)

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight (1978)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

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Side one

1. "Surrender"   4:16

2. "On Top of the World"   4:01

3. "California Man"   3:44

4. "High Roller"   3:58

5. "Auf Wiedersehen"   3:42

Side two

6. "Takin' Me Back"   4:52

7. "On the Radio"   4:33

8. "Heaven Tonight"   5:25

9. "Stiff Competition"   3:40

10. "How Are You"   4:21

11. "Oh Claire" (not listed on LP label or album cover)   1:10

Total length:   43:42

1998 reissue bonus tracks

12. "Stiff Competition"   (outtake)   4:03

13. "Surrender"   (outtake)   4:52

 

Cheap Trick Band Members / Musicians

Robin Zander – lead vocals, rhythm guitar

Rick Nielsen – lead guitar, harpsichord, cello, mandocello, backing vocals

Tom Petersson – bass, backing vocals

Bun E. Carlos – drums

Jai Winding – keyboards

Tom Werman – producer

Gary Ladinsky – engineer

Mike Beiriger – assistant engineer

George Marino – mastering

Jim Charne, Paula Scher – design

Reid Miles – photography

Heaven Tonight is Cheap Trick's 3rd studio album, produced by Tom Werman and released in 1978. The album was remastered and released with bonus tracks on Sony's Epic/Legacy imprint in 1998. The album cover features lead singer Robin Zander and bassist Tom Petersson on the front, with Rick Neilsen and Bun E. Carlos on the back.

Heaven Tonight is considered Cheap Trick's best album by many fans and critics. While their debut album Cheap Trick showed the band's darker, rawer side and In Color explored a lighter, more pop-oriented persona, Heaven Tonight combined both elements to produce a hook-filled pop-rock album with an attitude. Popular songs from this album include the anthemic "Surrender", "Auf Wiedersehen", the title track, and a cover of The Move's "California Man".

Heaven Tonight is also known as the first album ever recorded with a 12-string electric bass.