Cheap Trick’s Amazing Journey
Rick and Robin onstage; note Nielsen’s “Uncle Pepper” Hamer, custom-finished for him for Cheap Trick’s performance of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 2009.
Photo by Jeff Daly
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