On this day (December 24) in 1988, Poison topped the Billboard Hot 100 with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” The now-classic power ballad spent three weeks at No. 1, making it the final chart-topper of ...
There’s something about a rock ballad that stirs feelings of nostalgia even when the lyrics aren’t particularly wistful. The music of the 1980s arrived with heightened earnestness as the decade became ...