Vinyl records

John Cougar Mellencamp vinyl records

25 albums with 714 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

John Mellencamp. Born in Seymour, Indiana on October 7, 1951. He started out for a brief period of time as a glam rocker, but then tried out for a solo career with his first album Chestnut Street Incident released by former David Bowie manager, Tony DeFries on the Mainman (division of MCA) label. That album was a complete flop partly due to the fact that the record label wanted to mold John into something he was not (a pretty boy ala James Dean) and the fact that the album consisted of only 6 originals and 5 cover songs. It was also the label's idea to release the album under the name Johnny Cougar which Mellencamp did not approve of.