Bret Michaels Will Degrade Himself, Women, Humanity Again For Another Season of "Rock of Love"

If catching Rock of Love rejects like Destiney and Megan on VH1's I Love Money has got you itching (literally) for more of Bret Michaels' quest for romance, get ready for the third annual Mud Bowl: Rock of Love 3 is a go, with the Poison frontman switching things up a bit and taking his suitors on a tour bus across America in early 2009. Trust us, we're psyched, but perhaps the show is running low on ideas: VH1 is promising challenges like "a BBQ cook-off beneath the World's Largest Thermometer." We can picture Michaels' intro right now: "Nothing says rock & roll like big, hot meat! Hey-o!"

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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