AP - Apr 17, 2009
The 14-year-old son of rock singer John Mellencamp has won a division title in the Indiana Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Hud Mellencamp, who boxes for the Indy Police Athletic League, earned a 4-1...
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At a recent concert outside Detroit, rock 'n' roll singer-songwriter John Mellencamp marveled about releasing his 23rd album, Life Death Love and Freedom. When I was a kid, he told the crowd...
More »AP - Jul 15, 2008
Farm Aid, the long-running benefit concert, will be held this year in New England for the first time. The show will be held Sept. 20 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, co-founder John Mellencamp said...
More »AP - May 6, 2008
A musical by John Mellencamp and Stephen King, scheduled to be produced next season in Atlanta, has been postponed, the Alliance Theatre announced Monday. The Alliance announced in February that Ghost...
More »AP - Feb 27, 2008
Creating a Broadway musical can be scary enough. Even more so when it s script is penned by horror master Stephen King. King, who has written numerous best-selling novels, has written the script for...
More »AP - Feb 7, 2008
PHOENIX (AP) It may be Our Country, but it s John Mellencamp s song. When the liberal rocker found out that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain was playing his songs at campaign events,...
More »AP - Dec 13, 2007
The Material Girl is about to become a Hall of Famer. The ever-evolving Madonna was announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen...
More »E! Online - Dec 13, 2007
It's official: the Queen of Pop rocks. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was out Thursday with its list of annual inductees, with Madonna leading the class of 2008. Joining her in the Cleveland shrine...
More »AP - Aug 7, 2007
There s something to be said for consistency go to Farm Aid and you see John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Dave Matthews. For this year s inaugural show in New York, they ll be joined...
More »Reuters - Jun 11, 2007
New York will play host later this year to a new edition of Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help family farms, singer Willie Nelson announced on Monday. Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Festival will be held...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2007
The Farm Aid benefit concert is planting itself in New York City later this year, organizers said Monday. The show will be held at Randalls Island on September 9. Farm Aid co-founders Willie Nelson...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2007
John Mellencamp will celebrate Independence Day with the Boston Pops. Mellencamp will join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for the annual Fourth of July concert and fireworks show on the...
More »E! Online - Jun 11, 2007
As any good planter can attest, crop rotation is essential for quality control and variety. So it makes perfect sense that Farm Aid is eschewing its traditional prairie home and putting down...
More »Reuters - May 2, 2007
Rocker John Mellencamp and folk singer Joan Baez are both vehemently against the war in Iraq, but only one of them was permitted to perform for recovering wounded U.S. soldiers last week. Mellencamp...
More »Reuters - Apr 11, 2007
Island Def Jam is reviving the legendary Mercury Records imprint in the United States, eight years after it was mothballed in the wake of a corporate merger. The label continues to operate overseas,...
More »Reuters - Jan 1, 2007
Billboard presents a look at the music you ll be hearing a lot about in the first quarter: JOHN MELLENCAMP Freedom s Road (Universal, January 23) Mellencamp s first album of originals since 2001...
More »AP - Oct 2, 2006
More than 25,000 people rocked to John Mellencamp s Little Pink Houses, sung along with Dave Matthews Crash into Me and raised more than $1.5 million for farming at this weekend s Farm Aid concert....
More »E! Online - Aug 31, 2006
Farm Aid is ready to kick out the jams and, um, polkas. With the annual daylong music fest turning 21, founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp unveiled an eclectic lineup for this year...
More »AP - Aug 31, 2006
This year s Farm Aid benefit concert will feature not only the nearly annual show s mainstays such as Neil Young and Willie Nelson, but also genres from polka to reggae. The lineup for the Sept. 30...
More »AP - Jul 21, 2006
Don t expect Dan Quayle to attend another John Mellencamp concert. The former vice president, miffed about a comment made by Mellencamp about President Bush s administration, walked out of the singer...
More »AP - Mar 29, 2006
INDIANAPOLIS Growing up near Indiana University, John Mellencamp couldn t help but become a big college basketball fan. So big, in fact, that as part of the NCAA s Final Four weekend here he s...
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