Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn

“Every Rose Has Its Thorn” – Single by Poison from the album Open Up and Say… Ahh!
Released October 12, 1988.

Poison lead singer Bret Michaels wrote “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” in response to a failed love affair with his girlfriend, Tracy Lewis. After playing at a bar in Dallas, Texas, Michaels called Lewis at her Los Angeles apartment and heard a man’s voice in the background. The next day the disconsolate Michaels took his acoustic guitar with him to a Laundromat and wrote the song right there.

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 Billboard’s Hot 100 top spot on December 24, 1988, for three weeks.

The song has been seen as a glam metal classic, being ranked on multiple “best of” lists. In 2017, Billboard and OC Weekly ranked the song number five and number two, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest Poison songs.

The music video to “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” was directed by Marty Callner. It starts out with a forlorn Bret Michaels in bed with a young woman, they both look unhappy. He gets up, does the heavy sigh that is at the start of the song and walks away to play the acoustic guitar, the video then goes into video clips of the band’s tour. The same young woman is seen driving a Thunderbird in the rain (two different times), listening to “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” on the car’s radio. The video was shot at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and in an empty warehouse nearby. The video ends with Michaels playing the last of the song on his acoustic guitar and walking away.

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