On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988 ...
Glam rockers Poison landed their first and only #1 song with the power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
The song, from the band’s sophomore album, Open Up and Say … Ah!, spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and was #3 on the Billboard year-end charts for 1989.
The band’s frontman, Bret Michaels, shared in an interview for VH1’s Behind the Music that the song was inspired by a cheating girlfriend. He said he wrote it after he called her while at the laundromat and heard a male voice in the background.
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