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Bret michaels on turning 60 after near-fatal health struggles!
Bret biography
Bret Michaels on Turning 60 After Near-Fatal Health Struggles: 'I Still Got a Lot of Life to Live' (Exclusive)
Bret Michaels likens his body at age 60 to a classic muscle car.
"I'm still fast, and I'm still fun to drive," the Poison rocker quips in this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
"I just need a lot more maintenance."
Michaels — who celebrated his milestone 60th on March 15 — has always lived life at full throttle.
After he found stardom with his band Poison in the late '80s with hits like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Nothin' but a Good Time," drama within the group and a series of health setbacks —complications with his type 1 diabetes, a near-fatal brain hemorrhage and a stroke in —threatened to derail his career.
But Michaels persevered: As Poison's success stalled in the early s, he moved into reality TV (VH1's Rock of Love and NBC's Celebrity Apprentice 3) and carved out a successf