READ MORE: Why John Mellencamp Doesn't Think Rappers Should Use the N-Word The idea of a young heartland rocker on the MTV airwaves might seem like an unlikely prospect today, but the nascent ...

I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. Getty Images John Mellencamp—then known as John Cougar—appears on MTV in 1982. People will research for days a flat-screen TV they’re thinking about buying.

By his early 20s, he had a record deal, performing under the names of Johnny Cougar (the creation of an agent) and John Cougar Mellencamp before a series of hit records and popular MTV videos in ...

The canvas on which John Mellencamp is at work on this glorious late-summer morning stands two feet taller than he does and is the width of his outstretched arms. Evolving on it is a ...

Mellencamp, known forever by some as John Cougar, put on the free concert with the help of MTV after Sammons Communications Inc. took MTV off the air. Some signs brought to the arena by ...

Teddi Mellencamp clarified that her conversation with her dad, John Mellencamp, about planning for her burial was not as serious as people interpreted it. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ...