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Richard Alan Nielsen (22 December 1948 - Present)
Vocal Range: G♯2 - B♭5
Associated Acts: Cheap Trick (1973 - Present)
{Album Ranges}Cheap Trick (1977): F♯3 - B4 - A5
In Color (1977): N/A - B4 - D5
Heaven Tonight (1978): N/A - D5 - G♯5
Dream Police (1979): E3 - C♯5 - G♯5
All Shook Up (1980): N/A - C♯5 - F♯5
One on One (1981): N/A
Next Position Please (1983): E3 - D5 - E5
Standing on the Edge (1985): A2 - D5 - E5
The Doctor (1986): A2 - F5
Lap of Luxury (1988): F3 - E5 - F♯5
Busted (1990): N/A - E♭5 - E5
Woke Up with a Monster (1994): D3 - D5 - E5
Cheap Trick '97 (1997): N/A - C5
Special One (2003): N/A - D5 - E5
Rockford (2006): D3 - D5 - F5
The Latest (2009): N/A - B4 - G5
Sgt. Pepper Live (2009): N/A - A4 - C5
Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello (2016): D3 - E5
We're All Alright! (2017): F♯3 - B4 - F♯5
Christmas Christmas (2017): N/A - A4 - E♭5
In Another World (2021): D3 - D5 - E5
In Color (1977): N/A - B4 - D5
Heaven Tonight (1978): N/A - D5 - G♯5
Dream Police (1979): E3 - C♯5 - G♯5
All Shook Up (1980): N/A - C♯5 - F♯5
One on One (1981): N/A
Next Position Please (1983): E3 - D5 - E5
Standing on the Edge (1985): A2 - D5 - E5
The Doctor (1986): A2 - F5
Lap of Luxury (1988): F3 - E5 - F♯5
Busted (1990): N/A - E♭5 - E5
Woke Up with a Monster (1994): D3 - D5 - E5
Cheap Trick '97 (1997): N/A - C5
Special One (2003): N/A - D5 - E5
Rockford (2006): D3 - D5 - F5
The Latest (2009): N/A - B4 - G5
Sgt. Pepper Live (2009): N/A - A4 - C5
Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello (2016): D3 - E5
We're All Alright! (2017): F♯3 - B4 - F♯5
Christmas Christmas (2017): N/A - A4 - E♭5
In Another World (2021): D3 - D5 - E5
Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Brand New Name on an Old Tattoo" Demo)
A5 ("Fan Club", "Hot Love", "Please Mrs. Henry" Live Los Angeles 1977)
G♯5 ("Heaven Tonight", "I Dig Go-Go Girls", "She's Tight" Live Daytona 1988, "World's Greatest Lover" Demo)
G5 ("Baby No More" Live Merrillville 1998, "Miracle", "The Summer Looks Good On You" Live Clarkston 2018, "Takin' Me Back", "Violins" Live Los Angeles 1977)
F♯5 ("Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination)", "The Rest of My Life", "Space", "That 70's Song")
F5 ("The Doctor", "Ghost Town" Live Houston 1989, "Give it Away", "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", "Mandocello" Various Live Performances, "When the Lights Are Out", "Wrong Side of Love")
E5 ("3-D", "All Wound Up", "Another World (Reprise)", "Blood Red Lips", "Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination)", "If You Need Me", "If You Want My Love", "Listen to Me", "Mandocello", "Never Run Out of Love", "Perfect Stranger", "Rebel Rebel", "She's Got Motion", "Sorry Boy", "World's Greatest Lover" Demo, "You Talk Too Much" Demo)
E♭5 ("How Are You?", "If You Need Me", "If You Want My Love" Live Auburn Hills 1989, "I Wish it Was Christmas Today", "Lolita", "Love Me for a Minute", "Woke Up With a Monster")
D5 ("All I Really Want", "All Wound Up", "Big Eyes", "Come On, Come On" Rockford Version, "Dancing the Night Away", "Didn't Know I Had it", "Downed", "Dream the Night Away", "ELO Kiddies", "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", "High Roller", "I Can't Understand it", "If I Could", "Little Sister", "Low Life in High Heels", "Merry Xmas Everybody", "My Obsession", "Oh, Candy", "Oh Caroline", "One More", "Rock All Night", "She Said, She Said", "She's Got Motion", "Space", "Such a Good Girl", "The Summer Looks Good On You", "Wild Wild Women", "Y.O.Y.O.Y.")
C♯5 ("Are You Lonely Tonight", "Busted", "Cover Girl", "Dancing the Night Away" Various Live Performances, "Day Tripper" The Epic Archive, Vol. 2, "Didn't Know I Had it", "The Doctor", "I Can't Take it", "I Can't Understand it", "If You Still Want My Love", "I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends", "I Will Survive", "Jet", "Let Her Go", "Love Comes", "Never Had a Lot to Lose", "The Rest of My Life", "She's Tight", "Stiff Competition", "Takin' Me Back", "Tonight it's You", "Transformers: The Fallen Remix", "Welcome to the World", "Writing on the Wall", "You Talk Too Much" Demo)
C5 ("All We Need is a Dream", "A Place in France", "Blackberry Way", "Brand New Name on an Old Tattoo" Demo, "Eight Miles Low", "Getting Better", "Hard to Tell", "If I Could", "Let Go", "Love Me for a Minute", "Love's Got a Hold on Me" Various Live Performances, "No Direction Home", "O Claire", "One More", "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight", "Spring Break", "Surrender", "Times of Our Lives", "Twisted Heart", "When You Need Someone", "World's Greatest Lover", "You Want it")
B4 ("Another World (Reprise)", "Baby Talk", "Back 'N Blue", "Best Friend", "Blackberry Way", "Clock Strikes Ten", "Come On, Come On" Rockford Version, "Cover Girl", "Cry, Cry", "Didn't Know I Had it", "Dream Police", "Everyday You Make Me Crazy", "Every Night and Every Day", "Heaven's Falling", "Hot Love", "How About You", "I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends", "Invaders of the Heart", "I Want You", "Listen to Me", "Miracle", "Money is the Route of All Fun", "Never Run Out of Love", "Oh, Candy", "On Top of the World", "Reach Out", "She's Alright", "She's Tight", "So Good to See You", "Space", "Spring Break", "Stiff Competition", "Stop That Thief", "Surrender", "Takin' Me Back", "Tell Me Everything", "These Days", "This Time Around", "Up the Creek", "Voices", "Woke Up With a Monster", "Won't Take No For an Answer", "Writing on the Wall", "You're All I Wanna Do" Live Japanese TV 1994, "Younger Girls")
B♭4 ("Day Tripper" Various Live Performances, "Everybody Knows", "Give it Away", "How Are You?", "If You Need Me", "Love Comes", "O Claire", "Oh Caroline", "You're All I Wanna Do")
A4 ("Ain't That a Shame" Various Live Performances, "Alive", "All I Really Want", "Another World", "Born to Raise Hell", "Brand New Name on an Old Tattoo" Demo, "California Man", "Carnival Game", "Clock Strikes Ten", "Closer, the Ballad of Burt and Linda", "Cold Turkey", "Cry, Cry", "Decaf", "Don't Hit Me with Love", "Down On the Bay" Live Los Angeles 1977, "Downed", "Fortune Cookie", "Getting Better", "He's a Whore", "High Roller", "The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)", "I Dig Go-Go Girls", "If I Could", "If it Takes a Lifetime", "If You Still Want My Love", "If You Want My Love", "I Want You", "I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day", "Jet", "Let Go", "Little Sister", "Lookin' Out For Number One", "Love's Got a Hold On Me", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)", "Merry Xmas Everybody", "Money is the Route of All Fun", "My Gang", "My Obsession", "One More", "On the Radio", "Perfect Stranger", "Please Mrs. Henry" Various Live Performances, "Scent of a Woman", "The Sun Never Sets", "Taxman, Mr. Thief", "Too Much", "Transformers: The Fallen Remix", "Violins" Live Los Angeles 1977, "When I'm Sixty-Four", "When You Need Someone", "World's Greatest Lover" Demo)
Significant Low Notes:
F♯3 ("He's a Whore", "The Rest of My Life", "Surrender" Rock & Roll Road Trip + Howard Stern Show 1996)
F3 ("Let Go", "Love Comes")
E3 ("Born to Raise Hell", "Closer, the Ballad of Burt and Linda", "Cry Baby", "Dream Police", "I'll See You Again", "Invaders of the Heart", "Love Me for a Minute", "My Gang", "Stop That Thief")
D3 ("All Those Years", "Boys & Girls & Rock N Roll", "Cold Turkey", "No Direction Home", "Woke Up With a Monster")
C3 ("Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)")
A2 ("It's Up to You", "Little Sister")
G♯2 ("I Want You to Want Me" Rock & Roll Road Trip)
{Questionable Notes}D6 ("Writing on the Wall" [2])
B5 ("Merry Xmas Everybody" [5])
B♭5 ("She's Tight" Live Rock Palace 1984 [1])
A5 ("Down On the Bay" Live Los Angeles 1977, "The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" [4])
B2 ("One On One" [2])
F♯2 ("It's Up to You" [1])
C♯2 ("I'd Give it Up" [2])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
B5 ("Merry Xmas Everybody" [5])
B♭5 ("She's Tight" Live Rock Palace 1984 [1])
A5 ("Down On the Bay" Live Los Angeles 1977, "The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)" [4])
B2 ("One On One" [2])
F♯2 ("It's Up to You" [1])
C♯2 ("I'd Give it Up" [2])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
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