“Say Goodbye” by Cheap Trick

"Say Goodbye" was the lead single from Cheap Trick's self-titled 1997 album, their 13th in the studio. Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander and Tom Petersson wrote it, and the band produced it with Ian Taylor, who also engineered and mixed. Zander sings and plays acoustic and slide guitar, Nielsen handles the electric, Petersson is on bass and Bun E. Carlos on drums. Billboard's Larry Flick called it "gloriously melodious" and one of the band's "best ever bits of Beatlemania", no small thing coming from a band with their track record there.

Red Ant began working it to American radio in March 1997, alternative and triple-A formats included, and it got to 39 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Doug Freel's video puts the band on stage before a crowd at the Rockford Theater in Rockford, Illinois, cut with footage shot around Chicago.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.