Poison is an American glam metal band that formed in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in 1983. The band’s most successful lineup includes lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bret Michaels, drummer Rikki Rockett, bassist and keyboardist Bobby Dall, and lead guitarist and backing vocalist C.C. DeVille. From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, the band had enormous financial success, selling 18 million records in the United States and over 55 million albums worldwide.
The band is perhaps best known for the Billboard Hot 100 number one hit single “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and other top 40 hit singles in the 1980s and 1990s, including “Talk Dirty to Me”, “I Won’t Forget You”, “Nothin’ but a Good Time”, “Fallen Angel”, “Your Mama Don’t Dance”, “Unskinny Bop”, “Something to Believe In”, “Ride the Wind”, and “Life Goes On.”
