Blog: Pop Go The '80s

Long before he reclaimed his name as John Mellencamp, there was an artist named John Cougar, a heartland rocker from Indiana in the vein of Bob Seger who had released a handful of albums in the late '70s to relative indifference from the public. Cougar had managed to hit the Top 40 in 1979 with an ode to frustration called I Need A Lover , but even that success was overshadowed by a version of the song by Pat Benatar. Undaunted, backed by his long-time band and produced by guitarist Steve Cropper (of Booker T. & The [...]