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Bret Michaels is an American singer and songwriter who is best remembered for his work as the vocalist for Poison, a glam metal band in the 1980′s and early 1990′s. Beyond his vocal work with the multi-platinum selling band, he has also released several solo albums, and done extensive work on various reality television programs, as well as appearing in or directing several films.
Born Bret Michael Sychak, to Wally and Marjorie Sychak of Butler, Pennsylvania, he later dropped his last name to create his stage persona. He was born on March 15th, 1963. He and his parents, along with his sisters Michelle and Nicole, relocated to Mechanicsburg, PA, where he spent the remainder of his early life.
Michaels co-founded the band Paris at the age of 20, in Harrisburg, PA. The band later moved to Los Angeles, and changed its’ name to Poison. Poison signed with the independent label Enigma Records in 1986, and released their first album in August of that year. That album, ‘Look What the Cat Dragged In’, initially had only one single, ‘Cry Tough’; however, the album became a surprise success as three other songs, ‘Talk Dirty to Me’, ‘I Want Action’, and ‘I Won’t Forget You’, made their way to the Billboard charts.
Poison then released their second studio album, ‘Open Up and Say… Ahh!’ in May of 1998. This album peaked at number 2 on the Billboard charts, and included the bands’ biggest hit, ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’. The album went on to sell more than 8 million copies worldwide, and was a source of some controversy over its’ cover. The original cover depicted a woman with a decidedly demonic look, as well as a tongue that some people protested was ‘obscene’ in length. The album was re-released with a new cover that centered the artwork on the woman’s’ eyes.
After releasing several more albums with Poison, Michaels turned to other pursuits. He recorded a solo album, 1998′s ‘A Letter From Death Row’ as a soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which he also wrote, directed, and starred in, as well as co-produced with actor Charlie Sheen. In 2003, he released another solo album, ‘Songs of Life’. He appeared as a judge on the 2005 season of the reality TV show ‘Nashville Star’, as well as releasing an album of country rock music, titled ‘Freedom of Sound’, in the same year. ‘Freedom of Sound’ had several singles, including the hit single ‘All I Ever Needed’, featuring Jessica Andrews.
In February 2007, the cable network VH1 announced that Bret Michaels would star as the bachelor in the reality TV show ‘Rock of Love’. This show was commercially successful, and VH1 later continued the show with a second season, and even had the third season go ‘on tour’ with Michaels on ‘Rock of Love Bus’.
Michaels other film credits include directing and co-producing the film ‘No Code of Conduct’, as well as co-producing ‘Free Money’ and ‘In Gods Hands’. He has also appeared in an episode of the CBS sitcom ‘Yes, Dear’, and is currently a contestant on the 2010 season of NBC’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’.
For more information on Bret Michaels, visit http://bretmichaels.us.
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Billboard #1s: Classic Country $15.98 Rhino’s 2006 double-disc set Billboard #1s: Classic Country serves up 30 big hits that have topped the Billboard Country charts, stretching back as far as Hank Snow’s 1950 standard “I’m Moving On” and running all the way to Randy Travis’ 1987 classic “Forever and Ever, Amen.” Not that the songs on Billboard #1s: Classic Country are presented in chronological order. It skips around liberally, starting with Willie Nelson’s 1980 hit “On the Road Again,” then going back to the ’60s for Buck Owens (“Act Naturally”), Patsy Cline (“I Fall to Pieces”), and Tammy Wynette (“Stand by Your Man”) before reaching back to 1956 for Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line” and then going ahead to 1975 for Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” — and that’s just the first six songs. Some collections would suffer from such a haphazard sequencing, but since this compilation is just meant to be a handy roundup of some of the best-known country crossover hits of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, it doesn’t matter here. And this is a good collection of very well-known songs, the kind of set that will appeal to casual country fans who want good-quality versions of a bunch of standards like “Hello Walls,” “El Paso,” “King of the Road,” “Mama Tried,” “For the Good Times,” “Behind Closed Doors,” and “The Gambler.” There are a couple of odd choices, like Highway 101′s “Somewhere Tonight,” but there are no bad choices, making this a good sampler of some of the biggest country hits of the second half of the 20th century. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Billboard #1 Country Hits of the 80′s $5.07 Billboard #1 Country Hits of the 80s spotlights ten modern country radio tracks that topped the charts including John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” Highway 101′s “Cry, Cry, Cry,” David Frizzell’s “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home,” Eddie Rabbitt’s “I Love a Rainy Night” and Holly Dunn’s “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me.” This is an inexpensive way to collect these songs in one package. ~ Al Campbell, Rovi |
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Billboard #1 Country Hits of the 90′s $5.07 Billboard #1 Country Hits of the 90′s spotlights ten modern country radio tracks that topped the charts including Little Texas’ “My Love,” Travis Tritt’s “Anymore,” Randy Travis’ “Look Heart, No Hands,” Neal McCoy’s “No Doubt About It” and Tracy Lawrence’s “Alibis.” This is an inexpensive way to collect these songs in one package. ~ Al Campbell, Rovi |
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Billboard Sheet Music Hits 2000-2010 $16.41 Play the hits that rocked the Billboard charts from 2000 to 2010! This exclusive sheet music collection features dozens of No. 1 hits and piano-friendly chart singles that are a pleasure to play. Each piano arrangement accurately depicts the original hit |
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Country Club Billboard $14.99 Country Club Billboard – Premium Poster |
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The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music $37.5 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Billboard #1s: The ’70s $15.98 Rhino’s 2006 collection Billboard #1s: The ’70s rounds up 30 hits that topped a variety of Billboard charts during the ’70s. Even if some songs didn’t necessarily reach number one on the pop charts, each one of these tunes was a major pop hit, or at least has remained in the public consciousness over the last 30 years. As such, there aren’t many ’70s surprises here — it’s heavy on big pop/rock songs, soft rock, and disco, including such standards as “What a Fool Believes,” “Crocodile Rock,” “You’re So Vain,” “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “Lean on Me,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “Good Times,” “Let’s Stay Together,” “Rich Girl,” “Love Train,” “Without You,” and “Heart of Glass.” Chances are, there are plenty of people who already have some of these tunes in their collections, but for those who don’t and want all of them plus more in one handy collection, Billboard #1s: The ’70s does the job just fine. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Billboard #1 Hits of the ’70s $5.58 Billboard #1 Hits of the ’70s spotlights ten tracks that topped the pop charts including Bread’s “Make It With You,” Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” KC & the Sunshine Band’s “That’s the Way (I Like It),” Leo Sayer’s “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” and Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle.” This is an inexpensive way to collect these songs in one package. ~ Al Campbell, Rovi |
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Billboard #1s: The ’80s $15.98 While perusing the track listing on Rhino’s double-disc Billboard #1s: The ’80s, you may ask yourself: “Were all 30 of these songs really number one hits? I mean, I know that Mick Jagger’s ‘Just Another Night’ wasn’t that big of a hit, and I’ve never even heard this Joe Walsh song, ‘A Life of Illusion’! These can’t be number ones on the Hot 100, can they? Aren’t they lying here?” Well, if you asked yourself this, the answers are: yes, all 30 songs were number one hits, so Rhino is not lying, but the key is, these weren’t all hits on the Hot 100 — they were number ones on a variety of Billboard charts. Those Jagger and Walsh tracks, for instance, were number one on the mainstream rock chart (as are a full 14 of the 30 songs, actually), while the B-52′s’ “Love Shack” and the Cure’s “Fascination Street” topped the modern rock charts, the Honeydrippers’ “Sea of Love” topped the adult contemporary chart, and the rest were genuine number ones on the Hot 100. This talk may all be a bit inside baseball, but it’s necessary, since the title of Billboard #1s: The ’80s suggests that this would be nothing but the biggest hits of the decade, which it is not (and it’s a distinct possibility that licensing restrictions not only prevented big, big hits from the likes of Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson from being here, but necessitated the move toward multiple charts, since the compilers needed to fill the space somehow). But, so what? This isn’t designed to be complete, or to even have the biggest hits of the entire decade; it’s designed to be a cross section of highlights from the ’80s and it does a good job at that. As Cory Frye states in the liner notes, the ’80s were an “amazingly disparate era,” and this disc illustrates that: there’s the disco-rock of Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” the sleek AOR ballad “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” the lush retro-vision of the Honeydrippers on “Sea of Love,” the stately goth rock of the Cure’s “Fascination Street,” INXS’ tight funky “Need You Tonight,” and Tommy Tutone’s power pop classic “867-5309/Jenny” (there’s also Bruce Hornsby’s “The Way It Is,” which Frye pegs as “spare and human,” which may apply to the lyrics, but “human” is kind of an odd description for a recording that boasts one of the most conspicuous uses of keyboard bass). These may not be the biggest or best songs of the ’80s, but they are representative of the decade, as this collection is as a whole, which is what makes it a good listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Joel Whitburn’s Billboard Top Pop $36.38 The bible of recording industry lists every song by artist that made the Billboard Hot 100 and Pop music charts from 1955 through 2006. Brimming with basic chart facts, plus detailed artist and song title data, this is the best handy resource for the seri |
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Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts $59.69 Check out all original 520 “Hot 100″ charts published by Billboard from 2000 through 2009, including the non-published, electronic year-end charts! The charts are scanned in black and white at about 70% of their original size. The 2000s decade brought a l |
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US Country Charts, Vol. 5 $10.38 Description not provided. |
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Billboard, Fox Hills Country Club, Golf $49.99 Billboard, Fox Hills Country Club, Golf – Giclee Print |
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Alfred 0027669 Watching You Music Book $19.78 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational’ reference’ pop’ and performance materials for teachers’ students’ professionals’ and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument’ style’ and difficulty level. Country artist Rodney Atkins began making his way into radios and hearts across the nation in 2003 with the goal of singing about issues people face everyday. Tennessee born and bred’ he is known for his downtoearth values’ which includes a selfbuilt recording studio at his home. Watching You’ based on his own son Elijah’ hit the Billboard Country Music charts at number one. Now Alfred provides sheet music to this endearing and upbeat song including lyrics’ melody line’ and chord changes with professionally arranged piano accompaniment. |
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RCA Country Legends $5.58 It’s easy to see why hardcore country listeners expressed nothing but disdain for Sylvia during her hitmaking peak in the early ’80s. At a time when country music already trending toward light, sweet pop music, Sylvia’s records were the aural equivalent of cotton candy, so light they nearly floated in the air. Add her good looks to the equation, and she seemed like a model marketed as country to the legions of country purists. And they did have a point, since Sylvia’s music was only marginally country. There was a bit of twang here and there, some traditionally country themes and song structures, but it was sugar-coated and polished to a gloss, fitting in better aurally with the soft rock of the time instead of even the country-pop. All this is evident on her 16-track installment of BMG Heritage’s RCA Country Legends series. What makes this series interesting is that it doesn’t use the Billboard charts as the sole guideline for compilation; instead, it takes the biggest hits and expands them with album cuts, B-sides, and rarities intended to draw a clearer picture of the artist’s depth as a country artist. Usually, this has produced some very interesting, revealing collections, but it’s an approach that’s kind of odd for Sylvia, since her entire career only makes sense in terms of the charts, and this comes up short on hits. Of the 16 tracks, only six were hits, leaving 12 charting hits behind, including big ones like “Fallin’ In Love,” “Snapshot,” “Sweet Yesterday,” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened.” For a chart-oriented artist, that’s a lot of missing material, but RCA Country Legends still works — and, in fact, functions as a nice counterpoint to Renaissance’s comprehensive 1997 hits package Anthology — because it’s sequenced well, contains the biggest and best hits, while digging up a few choice cuts like “Cry Baby Cry,” “No News Is Good News,” “Tonight I’m Gettin’ Friendly With the Blues,” and “Eyes Like Mine” that prove that Sylvia did depth outside of the charts. That said, RCA Country Legends won’t change any minds about her musical attributes — this is still very soft country-pop, and even condensed to a collection, there are a few duff moments here and there — but for those that like Sylvia or early-’80s soft rock, this is quite enjoyable and nearly as an effective an introduction to her as the hit-laden Anthology ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Billboard Top 10 Singles Charts $37.46 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Actor Andrew Keegan at Billboard Music Awards $69.99 Actor Andrew Keegan at Billboard Music Awards – Photographic Print |
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Country Music: Country Music $5.28 Country Music: Country Music |