P is for Poison

Poison is an American glam-metal band that started in the mid 1980s to mid 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_(band)
The band consists of Rikki Rockett(drummer), Bobbi Dall(bass guitarist), Bret Michaels(lead vocalist), C.C. DeVille(lead guitar)

At the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, DeVille's cocaine addiction caused him and Michaels to get into a fistfight backstage. He was fired and replaced by Richie Kotzen.

On March 28, 2008, Rikki Rockett was arrested on suspicion of rape in L.A. after leaving a flight from New Zealand. According to police reports, on Sept. 23, 2007, a woman in Mississippi said that he sexually assaulted a woman in his hotel room at the Silver Star Indian Casino and Hotel on a Choctaw Indian Reservation. And he was exonerated of all the charges because it was stated he was was not in Mississippi at the time of the rape and that a man named John Minskoff used the name Rikki Rockett before raping her.

In 20101, Michaels was on the show Celebrity Apprentice and he was the winner, beating out Holly Robinson Peete.

M is for Motley Crue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6tley_Cr%C3%BCe

Motley Crue is an American heavy metal band that emerged in Los Angeles in 1981. The band consists of Nikki Sixx on bass guitar, drummer Tommy Lee, lead guitarist Mick Mars, and lead vocalist Vince Neil. Almost all of the members have had brushes with the law and some even did jail time, as a result of drugs, alcohol, flings with women. Their main trademark is that almost all of them are heavily tattooed.

Most of their fame came in the 1980s, which they made the albums Theatre of Pain, Girls Girls Girls and Shout At the Devil, all which basically showcased their love of alcohol, motorcycles and strip clubs.

They have all had brushes with the law, in 1984, Neil was heading home from a liquor store when he became involved in head on collision, his passenger, Hanoi Rocks drummer, Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley was killed. He was later charged with DUI and vehicular manslaughter and spent 30 days in jail.

On Dec. 23, 1987, Sixx experienced a near fatal heroin overdose. On the way to the hospital, he was declared legally dead. But one of the medics, who was a Crue fan, gave him 2 shots of adrenaline to bring him back to life. That was the inspiration for the song Kickstart My Heart.

Their song, Dr. Feelgood, was ranked as the #7 Air Guitar Song of All Time.

D is for Def Leppard

This English rock band formed in Sheffield as part of a new wave of British heavy metal. Ever since 1992, the band has had these members: Joe Elliot on vocals, Phil Collen on guitar, Vivian Campbell on guitarRick Savage on bass, and Rick Allen on drums. Most of their success came between the early 1980s and early 1990s. According to Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, their 1983 album Pyromania rankes #384. And in fact, they just played at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, OH, just last night!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard

In 1992, their album Adrenalize was the first album without guitarist Steve Clark(strangely enough, this is also my dad's name, lol!). Something unique about Rick Allen is he only has 1 arm. He lost his left arm in a car accident on Dec. 31, 1984 when his Corvette hit a drystone wall. Even though he only has 1 arm, that doesn't take away from his awesome drumming, he uses his feet to do some of the back up drumming.

On January 8, 1991, their guitarist Steve Clark died from a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol in his London home. On Oct. 23, 1995, they got into the Guinness Book of World Records for playing 3 concerts in 3 continents in one day- Tangiers, Morocco; London, England; Vancouver, Canada. On Sept. 5, 2000, Def Leppard was inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame in Hollywood by friend Brian May of Queen. And Def Leppard is only one of 5 rock bands with 2 studio albums selling over 10 million copies over the world, and those bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Vn Halen.

Side stuff

Joe Elliot sang lead vocals on 2 songs on Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood's album Slide on This, Phil Collen played guitar, uncredited, on Sam Kinison's Wild Thing. The video featured members of the bands Poison, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses, Ratt, Aerosmith.

Them younger

B is for Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad was born on November 30, 1955, in Stanmore, Middlesex, England. He is better known by his stage name Billy Idol. He emerged in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He is considered to be one of the first MTV stars and has done a lot of solo work and has made alot of stylish music videos. He currently tours with singer Steve Stevens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol

The song that got him noticed was his song Dancing With Myself and a cover of the Tommy James and the Shondell's song Mony Mony. In 1989, he appeared on stage with the Who as Cousin Tommy in the stage production of the Who rock opera Tommy. In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, Idol had a cameo appearance which he saved the relationship between Adam Sandler's character and Drew Barrymore's character, and in the movie The Doors, he appeared in there as well, playing Jim's drinking buddy Cat.

In 2008, the widely popular Guitar Hero World Tour came out, and Idol's song Rebel Yell appeared in the game, and on Rock Band 2, a game similar to Guitar Hero only you use drums, guitars, microphone, the whole nine yards, Idol's song White Wedding appeared.

1980s!!

When it comes to the 1980s, not alot is known about this decade except for the fact that one of the Beatles, John Lennon, was brutally murdered in NYC by a guy posing as a fan!

History

• Dec. 8, 1980: This day will live in infamy for every Beatles fan ever! This is the day that former Beatle John Lennon is burtally murdered by Mark David Chapman, a crazed gunman who posed as a fan. Lennon was shot 4 times in the back of the head in front of his Dakota Apartment building and evern worse, in front of his wife Yoko Ono. It must be horrible to just stand there and watch your husband be brutally murdered right in front of your eyes!

• Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for 13 murders
• Lethal injection first used in Texas
• AIDS virus discovered
• 270 people killed in Lockerbie, Scotland bombing
• Protests in Tianenmen Square, in Peking, China
• Space shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
• Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine
• May 11, 1981: Reggae legend Bob Marley dies from skin cancer

• The Jamaican National Bobsled team stuns everyone by winning at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• August 1, 1981: MTV premiers for the first time
• With the death of actor Rock Hudson, awareness for the disease AIDS rises
• Drug problems increase with the introduction of crack cocaine in the L.A. area
• The Rolling Stones release their Steel Wheels album and are inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, which marks the end of the fighting between front man Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards. And the band goes on a tour of the same name later that year

This is basically the 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour on DVD for those who didn't get to go.

Music

• The B-52's
• Billy Idol
• Twisted Sister
• The Rolling Stones(These guys were popular in EVERY decade!)
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• The Ramones
• The Sex Pistols
• Def Leppard

• U2

• Foreigner

• Van Halen

• Motley Crue

• Aerosmith

Movies

• First Blood

• Rambo: First Blood pt.II
• Rambo III
• Scarface

• The Shining
• Prizzi's Honor

• Let's Spend the Night Together

• Mississippi Burning

• Gorillas in the Mist
• Labyrinth

• Witness
• The Untouchables
• Blade Runner
• Tootsie
• Moonstruck
• Caddyshack

People Born/Famous

Celebrities popular:
Patrick Swayze
Emilio Estevez
Cher
Lisa Whelchel
Sylvester Stallone

People Born:
Wilmer Valderrama

Keira Knightley

Elijah Wood

Daniel Radcliffe(OMG! what a hottie!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Beyonce

Nicole Richie

Avril Lavigne

Kelly and Jack Osbourne

Kirsten Dunst

MTV

Since this is a music blog, I thought I'd make this post about MTV.

MTV
Here's some cool info about it:

• Launched on August 1, 1981
• Based out of New York City and featured videos played by what is called VJ's or video jockeys
• The 2 most commonly heard slogans for this TV network is "I Want My MTV" and "MTV is here"
• This channel is thought to be like a hub for all things music, like concert events, music news, music promotions, etc
• MTV's first ever played music video was the Buggle's Video Killed the Radio Star. The 2nd video was Pat Benatar's You Better Run.
• The basic premise of this channel was to play music videos nonstop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• During the 1980s, a good number of rock bands were made popular by this channel because their music got airplay. It ranged from heavy metal, to new wave to hard rock, such as:
• Adam Ant
• Eurhythmics
• Culture Club
• The Fixx
• Split Enz
• Prince
• Ultravox
• Duran Duran
• Van Halen
• Bon Jovi
• Ratt
• Def Leppard
• The Police
• The Cars
• Also rotated videos from parody artist Weird Al Yankovich
• Also played classic rock from the 1980s and earlier decades. With such artists as:
• Dire Straits- Money for Nothing
• Journey
• Rush
• John Mellencamp
• Billy Joel
• Genesis
• Billy Squire
• Robert Palmer
• The Rolling Stones
• Rod Stewart 
• The Who
• ZZ Top
• New solo artists such as:
• Robert Plant
• Paul McCartney
• Phil Collins
• David Lee Roth
• Pete Townshend
• Supergroup acts such as:
• Asia
• Power Station
• The Firm
• The Traveling Willburys
• As well as forgotten bands such as:
• Michael Stanley Band
• Shoes
• Blotto
• Taxxi
• In 1983, the hardcore rock band KISS appeared publicly with out their trademark makeup
• For some reason there was a limited number of black artists performing on this channel, and it wasn't until 1983 when someone black broke the color barrier, Michael Jackson. The black artists that were on the channel were Donna Summer, Eddy Grant and Tina Turner. English rock legend David Bowie actually questioned the fact that there were so few black artists on here. In 1983, the video for Michael Jackson's hit Billie Jean began getting regular airplay on MTV
• For most of July 13, 1985, this channel showed live broadcasts of the Live Aid concerts, held in London and Philadelphia to try and raise money to help people in Ethiopia.
• When the 1990s rolled around, MTV was regularly playing pop-friendly, hard rock, chart-topping metal artists, R&B quartets, such as:
• Guns N Roses
• Michael Jackson
• Madonna
• 2 Unlimited
• New Kids on the Block
• New Edition
• Bell Biv Devoe
• Tony Toni Tone
• Boyz II Men
• This also introduced rap musicians such as:
• Vanilla Ice
• MC Hammer
• LL Cool J
• Naughty by Nature
• Onyx
• Sir Mix a Lot
• By 1993, West Coast rappers associated with gangster rap, with alot less pop friendly stuff started getting airplay, such as:
• Snoop Dogg
• Tupac Shakur
• Ice Cube
• Warren G
• Dr. Dre
• The 1990s were also the time of alternative music, which isn't hard rock, isn't pop, it's a little easy on the ears if that's what like. Also some of the hair bands of the 1980s were mainly phased out, except Aerosmith and Tom Petty. Also other acts such as R.E.M. and U2 began changing their style of music to keep up with the times.  Some of the more successful alternative artists include:
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Race Against the Machine
• Tool
• Beck
• Radiohead
• The Smashing Pumpkins 
• Blind Melon
• Silverchair
• Weezer
• Collective Soul
• Other musicians began experimenting with pop and alternative music and electronica. Some of these artists include:
• Madonna
• David Bowie
• U2
• Radiohead
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• When 1997 rolled around, this was the time of more pop, and more boy/girl bands. There were bands like The Backstreet Boys, The Spice Girls, N*Sync and also pop princesses as they're called, such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson. As time went on, rock, electronica, alternative music got less airplay and more pop and rap/hip hop got more airplay. Some of the artists that got heavy rotation with their music include Puff Daddy, Master P, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, Ja Rule, Eminem. We also seen new R&B bands and musicians emerge, such as Destiny's Child and Brandy
• This channel also has edited or will not play music videos that make references to racism, homophobia, sex, violence, weapons or advertising. Because who wants to watch a music video that advertises something? Stupid is my response to advertising in music videos!
• And this channel is slowly straying away from music and slowly heading in the direction of reality TV, such as The Real World, Road Rules, and The Osbournes, which follows the everyday life of Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon and their 2 kids Kelly and Jack. And also Punk'd is a newer one, where actor Ashton Kutcher and friends play pranks on celebrities. Recently the channel has been airing newer shows, like My Super Sweet 16, about spoiled, undeserving rich chicks practically groveling for a sweet 16 party they don't deserve in the 1st place and Jersey Shore, about a bunch of Italian youths in a Seaside Heights, NJ house. Sort of like Big Brother only with more tans and even more drama! The show Jersey Shore has had problems with it since day 1. One of the major problems it has had is it uses a term some may take as an ethnic slur. On various advertisements for it, it says "follow eight of the hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos ever". This term is often used as a racial slur for Italians and Italian Americans, and considering almost 80% or more of the population of New Jersey is Italian, that's pretty wrong for that show to go that way.
• Also this channel features animated stuff, like Beavis and Butthead, and Celebrity Deathmatch, where famous people in Claymation form would wrestle and rip each other to bloody bits.
• One of the more popular shows on this channel is Jackass, a show starring Johnny Knoxville, sometimes Bam Margera, and the late Ryan Dunn
• The iconic block letter M with TV in grafitti style writing over it is the best known logo in all of pop culture.
• And for all the commercials and campaigns, the people at MTV have gotten various artists to star in them, such as:
• Pete Townshend
• Pat Benatar
• Adam Ant
• David Bowie
• The Police
• KISS
• Culture Club
• Billy Idol
• Hall & Oates
• Cyndi Lauper
• Madonna
• Lionel Richie
• Ric Ocasek
• John Mellencamp
• Peter Wolf
• Joe Elliot
• Stevie Nicks
• Rick Springfield
• Mick Jagger

Logos

This logo has gone thru so many changes it's hard to keep track

This one must be promoting the Rolling Stones

Sorry to be predictable but I love this one!!!!

Another image of the old logo

Different variations on it