John Mellencamp News

Mellencamp to kick habit if Facebook group hits 1M

Dec 1, 2009 10:41 am PST

John Mellencamp's 14-year-old son has started a social networking campaign on Facebook that he hopes will get his rocker dad to quit smoking. The 58-year-old Mellencamp has said many times since his 1994 heart attack that he's failed in ...

Q&A: Rocker Mellencamp happy to be "an old man"

Jul 25, 2008 3:00 pm PDT

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, "I just wanted to make a recor...

Farm Aid to be held in New England for 1st time

Jul 15, 2008 11:00 am PDT

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 Tuesday. Farm Aid, which held its fir...

King-Mellencamp musical postponed in Atlanta

May 6, 2008 4:00 am PDT

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 Brothers of Darkland County," with m...

Stephen King, Mellencamp to make musical

Feb 27, 2008 4:00 am PST

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 "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," wi...