• David Bowie did it. Then KISS and Motley Crue, but by the time Poison jumped on the rock and roll hair-and-makeup train in the mid-1980s the MTV "hair metal" era had officially begun. Before singer Bret Michaels and guitarist C.C. DeVille appeared on VH1 reality shows, they wrote hits like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," which defined the late '80s melodic hard rock period and contributed to the group's sales of over 25 million albums worldwide.

  In the summer of 2009, Poison will embark on a U.S. tour with Def Leppard and Cheap Trick. Rolling Stone: How Def Leppard and Poison Mended Fences for Summer Tour (March 5, 2009)

• 1. Original Name: "Paris"
  2. Origin: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
  3. Years active: 1984-present
  4. Genre(s): Glam metal, Hard rock
  5. Label: EMI

• Members

  • Bret Michaels
  • Bobby Dall
  • Rikki Rockett
  • C. C. DeVille

• Discography

  • Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)
  • Open Up and Say...Ahh! (1988)
  • Flesh and Blood (1990)
  • Swallow This Live (1991)
  • Native Tongue (1993)
  • Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 (1996)
  • Crack a Smile...and More! (2000)
  • Power to the People (2001)
  • Hollyweird (2002)
  • Best of Ballads & Blues (2003)
  • The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006)
  • Poison'd! (2007)

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