Cheap Trick at Budokan

Cheap Trick at Budokan is the first live album by American rock band Cheap Trick, and their best-selling recording. Although the band and the album's liner notes claimed it was recorded at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, in fact it was recorded in Osaka. The album was first released in Japan on October 8, 1978, and later released in the United States in February 1979, through Epic Records. After several years of constant touring but only middling exposure for the band, At Budokan steadily grew off radio play and word-of-mouth to become a high-selling success, kickstarting the band's popularity and becoming acclaimed as one of the greatest live rock albums of all time and a classic of the power pop genre.