At the same, he underwent another rebranding as he officially dropped the "Cougar" from his name for good. He told the Houston Chronicle in that he "just wanted to get back to the basics. In the early '90s, John Mellencamp decided to branch out from music and explore the world of moviemaking. His first foray was with the drama "Falling From Grace," which he both directed and starred in. It tells the story of a country music star who returns home to Indiana with his wife and cheats with a hometown lover, repeating the spiraling lifestyle of his father.
The film, which co-starred Mariel Hemingway, received mostly positive reviews despite not making major noise at the box office. The early '90s also meant new love for John Mellencamp: He began a relationship with fashion model Elaine Irwin, whom he met when she was hired to appear on the cover of his "Whenever We Wanted" album and in the music video for "Get A Leg Up.
Elaine was only 23 at the time of their union and John was 40 and already a grandfather. Two months later, John suffered a minor heart attack after a show at Jones Beach in New York that forced him to cancel the last few weeks of a tour. It was just a terrible lifestyle. The couple seen here with Hud at the Grand Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in were married for nearly two decades before calling it quits in Both remained in Indiana to raise their children.
John Mellencamp soon returned to the stage. In the late '90s, John Mellencamp moved to Columbia Records and started making music he described to Guitar World Acoustic in as "Eastern, very grand stories, fairy tales. I may not be as good as they are, but I'm better than most. In , John got heavily involved with politics, participating in the Vote for Change tour in leading up to the U.
He also performed at the Democratic National Convention that same year seen here. John had reached a point in his career where he could celebrate the incredible achievements of his lengthy career. Starting in , John Mellencamp began releasing music produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett, who rose to fame as a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the '70s and has received multiple Grammys for his work in film music.
I'm through digging a ditch. John Mellencamp solidified his spot in music history when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of He was inducted by good friend Billy Joel, who explained the significance of John's impact during his speech. They need to hear stories about it," Billy said.
They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do in the small towns and in the big cities. They need to hear it. And it doesn't matter if they hear it on a jukebox, in the local gin mill, or in a goddamn truck commercial because they ain't gonna hear it on the radio any more.
They don't care how they hear it as long as they hear it good and loud and clear the way you've always been saying it all along. In — the same year he finalized his divorce from Elaine Irwin — John Mellencamp started seeing another famous blonde beauty: actress Meg Ryan.
The pair seen here at Italy's Taormina Filmfest in were together for three years during which he wrote the score for her film "Ithaca. John Mellencamp wrote every note — everything — the tiny little needle drops you hear in the back," she said. Late that year, he announced he was separating from wife Elaine, and the divorce was finalized the following summer.
With decades of popular music success behind him, Mellencamp proved willing to explore new frontiers. A long-planned collaboration with novelist Stephen King finally came together in , when the production of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County began its run at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mellencamp wrote the songs for this Southern Gothic musical, about a pair of bickering siblings and the spirits that haunt their family. Around this time, Mellencamp also revealed his talents as a painter to a wider audience. Still, there was plenty of new music to create. In , Mellencamp released his first studio album in four years, the folk-and-blues infused Plain Spoken.
The tireless rocker went on tour to support the album, its final leg winding down in the fall of In recent years, Mellencamp has been romantically linked to actress Meg Ryan and supermodel Christie Brinkley. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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