Before John Cougar Mellencamp (he kept the “Cougar” through the ’80s) recorded Scarecrow, he ordered his band to learn dozens of ’60s classics.Going through the process brought a certain ...

32 years ago today--on March 19, 1988--John Mellencamp played Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum. It was so long ago that he still had "Cougar" in his name. At the time the American heartland rocker was ...

On Aug. 24, 1987, John Mellencamp released one of his best albums, The Lonesome Jubilee.He was still using "Cougar" in his name at the time, but the brash rocker image was beginning to wear thin ...