Cheap Tricks Bugs Out

Cheap Trick is ready to get high with a little help from their friends.

In late '07, the popular rock act hit NYC's Waldorf Astoria for a live performance of the Beatles' timeless classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The concert featured the New York Philharmonic and special guests like Joan Osborne, Ian Bell of Gomez, Rob Laufer and an ensemble of Indian instrumentalists. Remarkably, Cheap Trick even got Geoff Emerick, the man who engineered the 1967 original album under producer George Martin, to oversee the concert's mixing.

You know what else Emerick did? He supervised a live recording of the Cheap Trick performance that's coming to DVD and CD on Aug. 25. The 2007 concert drew such firepower because it was a benefit for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and like that event, all proceeds from the CD and DVD will benefit the same cause.

In other band news, Cheap Trick continues to promote its new self-released album, "The Latest," which the group humorously released on the 8-track format. Very few people have 8-track players anymore, which might explain why "The Latest" currently reigns as the bestselling 8-track album of the year. The band will perform one of its tracks, "Sick Man of Europe," on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on Sept. 1. If you remember, O'Brien actually made his "Tonight Show" host debut to the band's '70s hit "Surrender."