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005			20210923112821.0
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019			_a1267595486
020			_a9781982112141 _q(hardcover)
020			_a198211214X _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781982112158 _q(paperback)
020			_a1982112158 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1228913228 _z(OCoLC)1267595486
042			_apcc
092			_aMELLENCA J. _bR328
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRees, Paul _c(Music journalist), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMellencamp / _cPaul Rees.
250			_aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
263			_a2109
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2021.
300			_axviii, 300 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
600	1	0	_aMellencamp, John, _d1951- _952383
650		0	_aRock musicians _zUnited States _vBiography. _9869
650		0	_aSingers _zUnited States _vBiography. _93280
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