{"id":2373603,"date":"2026-04-14T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2373603"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:51:09","slug":"cheap-trick-returns-to-budokan-watch-the-cool-new-music-video-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cheap-trick-returns-to-budokan-watch-the-cool-new-music-video-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Trick returns to Budokan: Watch the cool new music video here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/08\/09\/review-rod-stewart-cheap-trick-delight-fans-with-double-dose-of-classic-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheap Trick<\/a> returned to Budokan in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p>And, based on the footage from the event, it appears it was indeed a most welcome return the band best known for the legendary late-\u201970s concert album \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/04\/02\/two-cool-rock-hall-of-fame-acts-combine-forces-for-2-norcal-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheap Trick<\/a> at Budokan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interested parties can check out some of this cool footage \u2014 of both the band and its loyal fans at the famed concert venue in Tokyo \u2014 by dialing up <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/10\/08\/hardly-strictly-bluegrass-day-three\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheap Trick\u2019s<\/a> new video for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HaJcPStuLFs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Best Thing\u201d on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\"\/>\n<p>The video captures \u201cthe special connection shared by the band, the country of Japan, and their incredible Japanese fans \u2014 a bond as alive today as it was in 1978 when Cheap Trick first played the iconic venue,\u201d according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you get to watch by Rick Nielsen play guitar, which is always a treat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Best Thing\u201d is one of the more memorable tracks from the 2025 Cheap Trick studio album, \u201cAll Washed Up.\u201d You can check out the full record on all the major streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Want even more Cheap Trick? There\u2019s an interesting short film (running just over eight minutes) called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oydPJwJgGx8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCheap Trick at Budokan\u201d to watch on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also watch the short film and the music video below.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cheap Trick - The Best Thing (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HaJcPStuLFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cheap Trick At Budokan (Short Film)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oydPJwJgGx8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mercurynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap Trick returned to Budokan in late 2025. And, based on the footage from the event, it appears it was indeed a most welcome return the band best known for the legendary late-\u201970s concert album \u201cCheap Trick at Budokan.\u201d Interested parties can check out some of this cool footage \u2014 of both the band and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2373604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[366282,308544,21800,23083,22366,21928,22482],"class_list":["post-2373603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-rock-music","tag-social-media","tag-things-to-do"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cheap-Trick-returns-to-Budokan-Watch-the-cool-new-music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373605,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373603\/revisions\/2373605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}