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- Rick Nielsen's Cheap Licks
- Rick Nielsen's Cheap Licks
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Rockford, Illinois, USA
Richard Alan Nielsen is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and leader of the rock band Cheap Trick. He is well-known for his numerous custom-made guitars from Hamer Guitars, including his famous five-neck guitar.
Known for
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties — Self2024
- Taking the City By Storm: The Birth of Milwaukee's Punk Scene — himself2023
- Gibson TV: The Conversation — Self2020
- Cheap Trick - Greatest Hits: Japanese Single Collection2018
- Cheap Trick Live at Red Rocks2016
- The Goddamn Comedy Jam — Self2016
- Todd Who? — Himself2016
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest2015
- Cheap Trick: Guitar Center Sessions — Guitar, Vocals2014
- Sound City — Self2013
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Rick Nielsen (born December 22, 1946 in Rockford, Illinois) is the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Cheap Trick. For the band's first few albums, Nielsen wrote the majority of the material by himself. He is well known for having many custom made guitars from Hamer Guitars, including his famous five-neck guitar. He sings lead vocals on the demo for the song "World's Greatest Lover", which appears on the Cheap Trick boxed set entitled Sex, America Cheap Trick released in 1996
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rick
- Family name
- Nielsen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rockford
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Genre
- hard rock
- Instrument
- guitar
- Image
- Rick Nielsen Dream Police show.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-12-22
- member of
- Cheap Trick
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- social media followers
- 21042
- Commons category
- Rick Nielsen
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