When rock stars remind us of our own mortality

The recent illness of Poison frontman Bret Michaels is a reminder that our favourite hard-livin' 80s rockers may soon be leaving us. Not through suicide – from normal, boring old ageLast week, my world was rocked. Bret Michaels had been taken into hospital again, for a brain haemorrhage, straight after an emergency appendectomy. Bret Michaels! Poison! Mother-chuffing 80s hair metal! This, fellow rockers, is serious news indeed.I remember listening to the Red Dragon Rock Show as a kid in S...

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