John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
John J Mellencamp, also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He rose to superstardom in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles," including "Hurts So Good," "Jack & Diane," "Crumblin' Down," "Pink Houses," "Lonely Ol' Night," "Small Town," "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," "Paper in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 October 1951
CountryUnited States of America
This is about black people selling out other black people.
People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.
Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.
I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.
I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
Hold on to 16 as long as you can,
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.