LOS ANGELES (AP) -- He was one of rock's bad boys, a guitarist with a penchant for earsplitting riffs, drugs and girls. At 38, Cecil "CC" DeVille says he's older and wiser. Clean and sober for five ...

Thirty-five years ago, hair-metal hitmakers Poison released their debut album Look What the Cat Dragged In on the scrappy Enigma Records, after they’d been “flat turned down by everybody” at every ...

It is no secret that Guns N' Roses legend Slash had once auditioned for a pre-fame Poison, but did you know that singer Bret Michaels was the only member of the band that wanted to hire Slash over C.C ...

Ah, rock star drama. There’s no shortage of it now, and there was definitely no shortage of it back in the 20th century. On this very day in 1991, guitarist C.C. DeVille of Poison got booted from the ...

Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, he of the platinum blonde locks you see rocking the band's early '80s video for "Talk Dirty To Me" in the image above, has a decidedly different look as Poison prepare ...

Rockers aren’t exactly known for their polished performances. A measure of chaos comes with the territory. Usually, though, you can count on a band to at least seem rehearsed in their playing. Rockers ...

The classic Poison lineup — and, consequently, the late-‘80s hard-rock scene — would have looked a lot different if Bret Michaels had gotten his way. Michaels and Poison drummer Rikki Rockett discuss ...