Mellencamp
Book
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
"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, like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash before him, walks to the beat of his own drum. Or, as he told author and veteran music journalist, Paul Rees: 'I just refuse to take shit off anyone.' Mellencamp will definitively chart the life of one of the most fascinating characters in all of American music. It will bring into full relief the complex, iconoclastic character of the man Billy Joel, when inducting Mellencamp into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, urged to 'Stay ornery, stay mean. We need you to be pissed off,' Joel continued. 'People need to hear a voice like yours to echo the discontent in the heartland. Someone's got to tell 'em, "Don't take any shit," and John, you do that very well.' Along with Mellencamp's full blessing, Rees will include new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, including Bob Seger, Stephen King, Willie Nelson, Larry McMurtry, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and Chuck D, among others. Rees will also include interviews from artists he has had a pronounced influence on such as John Mayer, Keith Urban, and Jason Isbell. Telling Mellencamp's story is telling the story of the American heartland, along with such pivotal moments in social history as the dawning of the Civil Rights movement, the hippy era, the anti-Vietnam War protests, Watergate, and the terms of such divisive US Presidents as Richard Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush and now Donald Trump. In terms of music, Mellencamp's account 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." --
"A complex, colorful and larger than life character, John Mellencamp walks to the beat of his own drum. Rees brings into full relief the complex, iconoclastic character of the man. With Mellencamp's full blessing, Rees includes new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, as well as artists whom Mellencamp has had a pronounced influence on. The result is a story of the American heartland, running 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." --Adapted from publisher info.
"A complex, colorful and larger than life character, John Mellencamp walks to the beat of his own drum. Rees brings into full relief the complex, iconoclastic character of the man. With Mellencamp's full blessing, Rees includes new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, as well as artists whom Mellencamp has had a pronounced influence on. The result is a story of the American heartland, running 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." --Adapted from publisher info.
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- 6 of 7 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| 250 | . | ‡aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡bAtria Books, ‡c2021. | |
| 300 | . | ‡axviii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ‡billustrations (some color) ; ‡c24 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (page 281) and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aPrologue -- 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. |
| 520 | . | ‡a"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, like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash before him, walks to the beat of his own drum. Or, as he told author and veteran music journalist, Paul Rees: 'I just refuse to take shit off anyone.' Mellencamp will definitively chart the life of one of the most fascinating characters in all of American music. It will bring into full relief the complex, iconoclastic character of the man Billy Joel, when inducting Mellencamp into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, urged to 'Stay ornery, stay mean. We need you to be pissed off,' Joel continued. 'People need to hear a voice like yours to echo the discontent in the heartland. Someone's got to tell 'em, "Don't take any shit," and John, you do that very well.' Along with Mellencamp's full blessing, Rees will include new interviews from his friends, family and colleagues, including Bob Seger, Stephen King, Willie Nelson, Larry McMurtry, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and Chuck D, among others. Rees will also include interviews from artists he has had a pronounced influence on such as John Mayer, Keith Urban, and Jason Isbell. Telling Mellencamp's story is telling the story of the American heartland, along with such pivotal moments in social history as the dawning of the Civil Rights movement, the hippy era, the anti-Vietnam War protests, Watergate, and the terms of such divisive US Presidents as Richard Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush and now Donald Trump. In terms of music, Mellencamp's account 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." -- ‡cProvided by publisher. | |
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