{"id":355263,"date":"2025-12-18T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:24:07","slug":"cheap-trick-defend-performing-at-kennedy-center-honors-in-tribute-to-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355263\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Trick Defend Performing at Kennedy Center Honors in Tribute to KISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/cheap-trick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cheap Trick<\/a> have taken a lot of heat for performing at the Donald Trump-hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/12\/2025-kennedy-center-honors-trump-gart-brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kennedy Center Honors<\/a>, where they played \u201cRock and Roll All Nite\u201d in tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/kiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KISS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:cheap-trick*kennedy-center-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fcheap-trick-tickets%2Fperformer%2F1809\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Cheap Trick Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to social media on Wednesday, the band insisted that there were no political motives in their decision to play the December 7th event: \u201cWe were asked to perform at this year\u2019s Kennedy Center Honors ceremony to pay tribute to our lifelong brothers in KISS, and to support artists and the arts. We agreed to do it for those reasons, and no others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KISS were honored alongside Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, and others at the Kennedy Center Honors. The event will be broadcast on CBS on December 23rd at 8 p.m. ET\/PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheap Trick have taken a lot of heat for performing at the Donald Trump-hosted Kennedy Center Honors, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-355263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}