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Rock stars are people just like the rest of us...only famous.
Behind the glitz and glam, their daily lives include the good times and bad...the the hum-drum and the heartaches.
Example: One night in the mid-80s, Bret Michaels of Poison was at a laundromat waiting for his clothes to dry, so he went outside to a pay phone and called his girlfriend.
When she answered, he heard a male voice in the background, and he was devastated.
He hung up, went back inside, and wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," today's Great Song of 1988-89.
In late '88, when the single was released from the album "Open Up and Say...Ahhh," one critic called it "an overwrought ballad."
Obviously that critic had never experienced fresh heartbreak, but glam rock fans certainly had!
By the time 1989 rolled around, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, and #2 Canada.
Over time, it became a glam rock classic, and picked up some solid Great Song validation: #34 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s", #100 on their list of Greatest Love Songs" and #7 on MTV's Top 25 Power Ballads."
Fun Fact : The video was filmed in Green Bay!
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison: a Great Song of 1988-89, and hopefully some emotional closure for Bret Michaels.
Tomorrow: Back to 1973 to show and tell about a #1 hit!
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