JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP IS ON FIRE
John Cougar Mellencamp is one of those rags-to-riches success stories that deserves to be made into an ABC Movie Of The Week. Mellencamp honed his guitar playing and storybook songwriting skills in his hometown of Seymour, Indiana, but soon realized that no record company bigwigs were likely to come looking for him there.
JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP IS ON FIRE
John Cougar Mellencamp is one of those rags-to-riches success stories that deserves to be made into an ABC Movie Of The Week. Mellencamp honed his guitar playing and storybook songwriting skills in his hometown of Seymour, Indiana, but soon realized that no record company bigwigs were likely to come looking for him there. So in 1975 he headed out to New York City, armed only with a couple of tapes of his songs and a strong sense of determination, and landed a record contract.
