Time Life to get 'Hard & Heavy' with Bret Michaels

TIME LIFE TO GET 'HARD & HEAVY' WITH THE MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HARD ROCKING HITS OF THE '70s AND '80s EVER ASSEMBLED TEAMS WITH POISON FRONTMAN BRET MICHAELS AS HE HOSTS TELEVISION PRESENTATION AND PERFORMS ACOUSTIC SET INCLUDING POISON SONGS BONUS DVD FEATURING 4 BRAND NEW, NEVER SEEN BEFORE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES FROM BRET MICHAELS AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE JULY 7, 2008

It doesn't get any heavier than this.
Time Life will continue their series of acclaimed music compilations by releasing
HARD & HEAVY, the most complete collection of hard rocking head banging hits, of the '70s and '80s, ever assembled.

HARD & HEAVY covers a broad history of hard rock music and is a virtual "who's who" of rock and roll and the artists that shaped a generation of hard music fans: Bad Company, Pat Benatar, Blue Öyster Cult, Boston, Cheap Trick, Cinderella, Alice Cooper, Damn Yankees, Deep Purple, Europe, Extreme, Foreigner, Sammy Hagar, Heart, Honeymoon Suite, Billy Idol, KISS, Loverboy, Meat Loaf, Megadeth, Nelson, Night Ranger, Poison, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, Rush, Styx, Skid Row, .38 Special, George Thorogood, Twisted Sister, Whitesnake, and many more.

Available to fans via www.timelife.com and 1-800-846-3543, the collection features 152 Hard Rocking hits on 9CDs and contains a 2-CD set of power ballads featuring classic ballads by the likes of Poison, Whitesnake, Cheap Trick, Heart, Kiss, Warrant, Kansas, Scorpions, Alice Cooper and many more. As an added bonus, fans who buy the CD collection online or via telephone will receive two bonus DVDs: "Hard & Heavy: Confidential" an exclusive four-song acoustic performance by BRET MICHAELS and "History of Rock 'n Roll," a three-hour history of Rock 'n Roll documentary with performances and interviews. This collector's edition set, comes packaged in an exquisitely designed specially created "heavy metal road case," metal collector's box.

For HARD & HEAVY, Bret Michaels hosted a half-hour performance clip show selling the collection, where in an exclusive new performance Michaels recorded for DVD, four songs on acoustic guitar: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "Something To Believe In," "Driven" and "All I Ever Needed. The DVD is exclusively available as part of the collection. Michaels joined forces with Time Life to create an essential look at the hard rocking hits of the '70s and '80s including many high-profile and must-have artists and songs that rarely appear in multi-artist collections. Filmed in the warehouse district of downtown Los Angeles with two rocking lady co-hosts, the show features over 80 performance clips of music and the artists from the '70s and '80s. The show allows Michaels to speak about how this music affected him growing up, talking about his favorite bands and where he was when he wrote "Every Rose Has Its. The 30-minute presentation will begin airing nationwide the first week of July.
"This is the music that I love, live and breathe everyday," says MICHAELS, one of rock's most charismatic front men, lead singer for iconic hard rock band Poison and star of VH1's "Rock of Love" hit reality show. "Hard & Heavy is, hands down, the hardest rockin' collection I've ever heard. If you like hard rock, heavy metal and power ballads, like I do, then this collection is absolutely for you. Time Life has put together something that I've always dreamed of. Killer guitar riffs, emotional power ballads and high octane metal."

Time Life's executive producers, Vinny Vero and Mitch Peyser, the creative forces behind the collection, set out to license pivotal hard rock songs to create a complete collection. Said Vero, "Bret wanted to make sure what we were saying in the show was something he felt and believed. He was very involved in the scripting of the show and wanted to feel good about what he was saying." "It's definitely the hardest rockin' collection we've ever created," said Peyser.

ABOUT TIME LIFE:
Headquartered in Fairfax VA, Time Life Inc. was founded in 1961 as a direct marketing company specializing in music and books. It has since grown to become one of the world's largest direct marketers of audio and video products, selling more than 13 million units each year throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is the largest advertiser of music products in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Time Life set the standard in the direct response industry by pioneering direct marketing techniques, building one of the most trusted and recognized brands in commerce. The company now also sells their products through major traditional and non-traditional retailers around the world as well as via the Internet. Time Life is a registered trademark of Time Warner Inc. used under license by Direct Holdings Americas Inc., which is not affiliated with Time Warner Inc.