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Music career

Michaels formed the band Paris in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1984.The original lineup for Paris was Leighton Zema on lead vocals, Bret Michaels on guitar, Brian Bircher on drums, Jonathan Combs on synthesizer/gong, and Patrick Bircher on bass. All original members, except Michaels, were from Steelton, PA, but they were all replaced by the members of what later became Poison. The band moved to Los Angeles in 1984 to begin touring clubs there. Poison became one of the biggest heavy metal/pop metal bands in the world and also recording several hit albums such as the 8 million seller Open Up and Say...Ahh!. This article is about the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ... Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and 1990s. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Open Up and Say… Ahh!, was the second and most successful album by American hair metal band Poison. ...

Michaels recorded his first solo album in 1998 "A Letter From Death Row" the soundtrack to the movie he directed, wrote, and starred in. In 2003, he released the studio album Songs of Life. Michaels also served as a judge during the 2005 season of reality television singing competition Nashville Star and released a country rock album in the same year called Freedom Of Sound.^[1] A Letter from Death Row may refer to: A Letter from Death Row (film), a 1998 psychological thriller film. ... Songs of Life is the 2nd solo studio album by Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison. ... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... Nashville Star is a television program broadcast on the USA Network in the United States and CMT in Canada. ... Freedom of Sound is the third solo studio album by Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison. ...

Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero Aerosmith

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 Michaels' song "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" appears in the Sony PlayStation game "Sing-Star". 

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Other ventures

Michaels and actor Charlie Sheen established a film production company, Sheen/Michaels Entertainment, which produced the movie A Letter From Death Row (1998) which Michaels wrote, directed and starred in, as well as releasing a soundtrack album. They also produced No Code Of Conduct in the same year. Their company also produced the feature film Free Money, starring Marlon Brando and Mira Sorvino. Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Free Money may refer to: Horses (album), a song on the debut album by Patti Smith Free Money (film), with Charlie Sheen and Marlon Brando Collection of Souls Site that offers users free money. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey) is an Oscar and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. ...

Bret Michaels singing "Talk Dirty to Me" in the videogame Guitar Hero III.

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The cable-TV network VH1 announced on February 14, 2007 that Michaels would star as the bachelor in the reality television dating-competition series Rock of Love With Bret Michaels.^[3][4] Jes Rickleff was the winner of the series; however, she also had a boyfriend outside the show and claimed that the casting directors chose her off of the street. She announced during the reunion show that she and Michaels were not right for each other and that he should have chosen the runner up, Heather Chadwell. VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... Rock of Love with Bret Michaels is an American reality television dating game show. ... Jes Rickleff, from Naperville, Illinois, is best known for being the winner of the reality tv show Rock of Love. ...

Michaels went on to star in the second season of Rock of Love, which premiered on January 13, 2008. On April 13, 2008, Michaels selected Ambre Lake as his "Rock of Love". The second season of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels was confirmed by VH1 in October 2007. ... Rock of Love with Bret Michaels is a reality show on VH1 set to air July 15, 2007. ...

On May 1, 2008, Michaels appeared on a special celebrity edition of Don't Forget the Lyrics!, where he raised $200,000 to donate to charity.^[5] Dont Forget the Lyrics! (or Lyrics) is a singing game show that premiered on FOX on July 11, 2007, hosted by comedian and former Whose Line is it Anyway? panelist Wayne Brady and produced by RDF USA, part of RDF Media. ...

Personal life

Michaels was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of six (as Michaels later attested in the Behind the Music special, backstage photos of the singer injecting insulin led many to think that he was a heroin addict). As a child, his family relocated to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Mechanicsburg High School. Diabetes mellitus type 1 (Type 1 diabetes, Type I diabetes, T1D, T1DM, IDDM, juvenile diabetes) is a form of diabetes mellitus. ... For the album by The Soundtrack of Our Lives, see Behind the Music (album). ... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ...

Bret Michaels was associated with singer Susie Hatton during the early 1990s. He has two daughters with Kristi Lynn Gibson. Raine Elizabeth Sychak was born on May 20, 2000, and Jorja Bleu Sychak was born May 5, 2005.^[1] As of 2007, Michaels and Gibson are separated and share custody of their children. There are rumors that they still have a live in arrangement.^[6] is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Michaels had a short but notorious relationship with Pamela Anderson. An abridged version of an explicit sex tape the couple made appeared on the Internet ^[7] and was released on DVD on September 7, 2005 by Metro Studios. Michaels later stopped the sexually explicit tape from being distributed, although the "teaser" version of it is still widely available on the internet. Word of another sex tape^[8], this time with unnamed girls from Rock of Love surfaced in early 2008. Michaels is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.^[9] He has a personalized guitar bearing the team's logo, and played the national anthem at Three Rivers Stadium.^[10] His favorite player was Jack Lambert, and Michaels has been a member of fan club "Lambert's Lunatics."^[11] Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ... Private sex acts filmed on a video tape but eventually leaked to the sensational media. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... Steelers redirects here. ... NFL redirects here. ... Three Rivers Stadium was a multi-purpose sports stadium and event facility located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1970 through 2000. ... John Harold Jack Lambert (July 8, 1952, Mantua, Ohio, United States) is a former NFL linebacker in American football. ...

Discography

Solo albums

• 1998 - A Letter From Death Row (soundtrack album)
• 2000 - Country Demos (demo cd)
• 2001 - Ballads, Blues & Stories (Interview / music compilation)
• 2003 - Songs Of Life
• 2005 - Freedom Of Sound
• 2008 - Rock My World (Rock Of Love soundtrack / Greatest Hits)

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Singles

• Party Rock Band featuring C.C. DeVille (1998)
• Raine (2003)
• Bittersweet (2003)
• All I Ever Needed (2004)
• Open Road (2005)
• Go That Far (2007)
• Fallen (2007)
• Start Again (2008)

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Poison

• Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)
• Open Up and Say...Ahh! (1988)
• Flesh & 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 (2000)
• Hollyweird (2002)
• Best of Ballads & Blues (2003)
• The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006)
• Poison'd! (2007)

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Filmography

Features:

• Burke's Law - 1 episode (1994)
• In God's Hands (1994)
• A Letter From Death Row (1998)^[12]
• The World's Greatest Magic 5 (1998)
• No Code of Conduct (1998)^[13]
• Martial Law - 1 Episode (1999)
• Poison: VH1 Behind the Music (1999)
• Yes, Dear - TV Series (2003)
• Nashville Star - TV Series Season 3 (2005)
• Rock of Love with Bret Michaels - TV Series Season one (2007)
• Poison: Live, Raw and Uncut (2007)
• Rock of Love 2 - TV Series Season two (2008)^[14]

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Bret Michaels at MySpace
• Official Poison website