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Cheap Trick to bring 'Sgt. Pepper' to Las Vegas

Cheap Trick will interpret The Beatles' classic 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" during a September Las Vegas engagement.

The band will kick off the performances, complete with a full symphony orchestra, Sept. 13 at the Las Vegas Hilton. The showcase will run over nine nights and will feature "special musical guests to be announced later," according to promoters.

"We are going to make rock 'n' roll history by incorporating this legendary American rock group with the music of The Beatles," said Bill Edwards, the show's producer, in a press statement. "This is a groundbreaking performance that everyone said couldn't be done live, but Cheap Trick has perfected it."

The shows, which will be priced more affordably than the typical Vegas revue, with seats starting at $65 apiece, will take place at the Hilton Theater, where Elvis Presley held an 837-night engagement in the early '70s, according to a press release.

Audio production of the show will be overseen by Geoff Emerick, who was the original audio engineer on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," working alongside producer George Martin. The production's stage will be constructed by veteran set designer Rene Lagler.

Cheap Trick's latest album, appropriately titled "The Latest," is due in stores June 23. The set, produced by Julian Raymond, follows 2006's "Rockford," which the band released on its own Cheap Trick Unlimited/Big3 Records label. "Rockford," the group's first set since 2003's "Special One," was hailed by fans and critics alike as a return to form for the veteran rockers.

Before hitting Vegas, the band will head out on the road for a lengthy tour this summer with Def Leppard and Poison. The 40-city trek kicks off June 23 in Camden, NJ.

Cheap Trick--frontman Robin Zander, guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos--formed in the early '70s and released its self-titled debut album in 1977. The band's most commercially successful release is 1979's "Live at Budokan," which spawned the hit "I Want You to Want Me."