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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 ...
Poison recorded several performances during its 1990/1991 Flesh & Blood world tour, which were released in November 1991 as the band's fourth album, Swallow This Live. The double album features live tracks from Poison's first three studio albums and four new studio tracks including the single " So Tell Me Why ", which were the last recorded ...
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 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 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.
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 ...
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock features many songs from the band's 20-year career. Most notable is the song "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", which was the band's biggest hit, a power ballad.
In its original American broadcast on NBC, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was seen by an estimated 3.50 million household viewers with a 1.1/4 in the 18–49 demographics. This means that 1.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 4 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast watched it. [3]