Bibliograph

Mellencamp, Paul Rees

Type

Label

Mellencamp, Paul Rees

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 281) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mellencamp

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1228913228

Responsibility statement

Paul Rees

Summary

John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. Not only has he absorbed into his own work the influence of Faulkner, Williams, Steinbeck and other such literary giants, but he himself could have stepped straight from the pages of any of their great American novels. A complex, colorful and larger than life character, Mellencamp comes to life in this biographty. Written with Mellencamp's full blessing, this book includes new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, including Bob Seger, Stephen King, Willie Nelson, Larry McMurtry, Emmylou Harris, and Chuck D, among others. His story runs parallel to the advent of rock-and-roll, the Summer of Love, the singer-songwriter superstars and the nihilistic punks of the nineteen-seventies, the founding of MTV and the have-it-all eighties, the creation of Farm Aid, and the radical re-shaping of the music industry that has gone on through this century

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The kid inside, 1951-1981. Small town ; Play guitar ; The real life ; Get a leg up ; Thundering hearts -- Pop singer, 1981-1989. Serious business ; Grandview ; Rumbleseat ; Paper in fire ; Void in my heart -- Mr. Happy Go Lucky, 1989-2001. The isolation of Mister ; Crumblin' down ; The Big Jack ; Between a laugh and a tear ; Positively crazy ; Eden is burning -- Freedom's road, 2001-2020. Damascus Road ; Troubled land ; A brand new song ; Dance naked ; August 26-27, 2010 ; Troubled man ; September 17, 2014 ; Lawless times ; Minutes to memories -- Epilogue

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