In response, ESPN host Pat McAfee is firing back at the '80s rocker — even going so far as to tell the “Jack & Diane” crooner ...

At one point during the night, the Pacers in-game entertainment team handed over the microphone to McAfee, and the former ...

What made John Mellencamp stand out were his longstanding ties to his roots, and the fact that he never, to this day, forgot ...

His goal, he told Esquire a couple of years ago, “is to get to 80. That gives me 10 years ... let’s take a look — and a listen! — to John Mellencamp’s greatest hits from his six-decade ...

John Mellencamp playing an acoustic guitar Located ... de plume DeFries foisted upon him – Johnny Cougar. In the early 80s he struck gold with the American Fool album, which sold five million ...

One of the coolest left-field elements of John Mellencamp’s concert Thursday night at Proctors was the absence of an opening act. Instead, the audience got roughly 20 minutes of scenes from ...

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star grew up the daughter of John Mellencamp, the 80s rockstar best known for ubiquitous hits including “Jack and Diane,” “Hurts so Good,” and “Small ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. John Mellencamp has been performing and writing songs for 4 1/2 decades. His hits in the '80s include "Jack & Diane" and "Small Town." At Obama's inaugural ...

Since achieving fame in the early ’80s, the “Jack & Diane” singer ... 200 with “American Fool” in 1982, Mellencamp (then known as John Cougar, née Johnny Cougar, and later John Cougar ...