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"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is a power ballad [4] by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in October 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album Open Up and Say... Ahh!. The band's signature song, it is also their only number-one hit in the US, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 24, 1988, for three weeks ...
Vocalist Bret Michaels allegedly wrote the band's most successful single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", in response to a failed love affair with a Los Angeles stripper. Poison had been playing at a cowboy bar called The Ritz in Dallas, Texas. After the show, Michaels called the woman at her apartment and heard a man's voice in the background.
The band knew Slash from the band Hollywood Rose, which he was a member of before joining Guns N' Roses, but the band was hoping to find an east coast guitarist. DeVille recently turned down an offer to join Christian rockers Stryper, [ 12 ] and although the rest of Poison were duly impressed with his playing and image, they did not care for ...
The music video to "Fallen Angel" mostly follows the lyrics to the song, and was in heavy rotation on MTV.In the video, a young blonde (portrayed by model Susie Hatton, then Michael's girlfriend) tells her family, at dinner, that she is leaving for California at the end of the week, a statement that surprises and silences them.
Poison frontman Bret Michaels is a prime ambassador for the era of '80s hair metail in "Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal," which takes its name from a Poison song ...
The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". [2] The band became icons of the 1980s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success.
The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". [ 4 ] Besides his career as frontman, he has several solo albums to his credit, including the soundtrack album to the 1998 film A Letter from Death Row in which Michaels starred, wrote ...
Maggie Rose’s fourth album No One Gets Out Alive, released in April, earned rave reviews from Billboard and Rolling Stone. When Rose called SPIN a few months later on a recent Friday afternoon ...