{"id":973895,"date":"2019-12-05T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922681"},"modified":"2019-12-05T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:09:06","slug":"flashback-poisons-1988-hair-metal-opera-fallen-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/flashback-poisons-1988-hair-metal-opera-fallen-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Poison\u2019s 1988 Hair-Metal Opera \u2018Fallen Angel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Poison<\/a>, and Def Leppard announced tour dates for their 2020 summer tour<\/a> at a press conference yesterday in Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m just telling you that it is going to be not just \u2018The Stadium Tour,\u2019 it is the party of the summer,\u201d Poison frontman Bret Michael said<\/a>. \u201cIf [the other bands] cut half their set, there\u2019s still nothing but hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

One song likely to be in Poison\u2019s set list is \u201cFallen Angel\u201d from their 1988 LP Open Up and Say \u2026 Ahh!<\/em>. The single reached Number 12 on the Hot 100 that year and MTV put the video into heavy rotation, but it hasn\u2019t had much of an afterlife. You still hear \u201cEvery Rose Has Its Thorn\u201d and \u201cNothin\u2019 but a Good Time,\u201d but \u201cFallen Angel\u201d is largely relegated to the SiriusXM channel Hair Nation and the occasional Eighties metal marathon on MTV Classic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame because \u201cFallen Angel\u201d is really the Citizen Kane<\/em> of Poison videos. It stars 19-year-old actress-singer Susie Hatton, who was dating Michaels at the time, as a suburbanite that leaves her family to find fame and fortune in Los Angeles. She gets work from a sleazy guy at a modeling agency (played by veteran Western actor Anthony James) but seemingly has to date him in return and endure his horrific behavior. At the end, she kicks him in the balls and escapes on the back of a motorcycle driven by Bret Michaels. But just as she leaves, another wide-eyed young woman exits a bus and the tragic cycle begins anew. (For the record, Guns N\u2019 Roses did the whole \u201cinnocent youth from Middle America arrives in Los Angeles via bus and gets eaten alive\u201d thing much better a year earlier in their \u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d video.)<\/p>\n

Hatton went on to release an album, Body and Soul<\/em>, that Michaels produced in 1991. Had it come out a year or two earlier, the record may have had a chance. But the slick, Poison-like album dropped right as groups like Nirvana and Pearl Jam were taking over the industry and it sunk without a trace.<\/p>\n

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Hatton was married to longtime Eagles touring drummer Scott F. Crago from 1993 and 2001 and had a guest spot on Baywatch<\/em> in 2000, but has had a pretty low profile over the past two decades. Maybe she can come out and join Poison next summer for a song or two and the \u201cFallen Angel\u201d can rise again.<\/p>\n

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