John Mellencamp explained why he “hated” one of his biggest hits on a new episode of Real Time With Bill Maher and revealed how the “stupid and silly” song ended up on his album anyway. The song in ...

Lacking clout when he entered the music business, John Mellencamp acquiesced to his manager’s insistence that he change his name to the ostensibly more marketable Johnny Cougar. But after he began to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before audiences knew him as John Mellencamp, the rock legend went by the name of Johnny Cougar. In a recent appearance on Real ...

John Mellencamp is one of those rare artists who has decades of hits. A talented singer and performer, Mellencamp is also a gifted songwriter. These are four of his biggest hits, which Mellencamp ...

The book, out Sept. 29, features a foreword by Stephen King and previously unpublished personal photographs ...

A new jukebox musical featuring the songs of John Mellencamp is hitting the stage. The production is bringing to life the story of his characters Jack and Diane, and is set to premiere this fall in ...