John Mellencamp is nobody’s American Fool

Fears were that nothin’ would happen following Nothin’ Matters and What if it Did.
John Mellencamp, or John Cougar as he was known in 1980 when the American rocker’s fourth album was released, was so disillusioned with both the material and his record label he seriously thought the end was nigh.
“I take no credit for that record,” he was quoted as saying a few years later. “Toward the end, I didn’t even go to the studio. Me and the guys in the band thoug