Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp poses for a portrait at the Greenwich Hotel, on Sept. 22, 2014 in New York. Mellencamp’s 1985 album “Scarecrow” is being reissued this week.

In the UK at least, this was the album that brought Mellencamp (or John Cougar, as he still was then) to the notice of the record-buying public, through the hit single Jack & Diane. But scratching ...

Scarecrow captures the moment when John Cougar Mellencamp, the rocker who once declared “Nothin’ Matters and What If It Did,” came to the conclusion, “You’ve Gotta Stand for Somethin ...

The first album under John Cougar Mellencamp was Uh-Huh, released in 1983. His next album, Scarecrow, in 1985 was a blend of social consciousness featuring a wide variety of genres. His next album, ...

Thirty years ago today--on April 16, 1986, if you can believe that--John Cougar Mellencamp played the Pacific Coliseum. This was smack-dab between his John Cougar and John Mellencamp periods.

Mellencamp's 1985 album “Scarecrow” is being reissued this week. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — An urgency in the ringing guitar and thunderous drums that opened the 1985 ...