John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Nobody would come and see me.
So anyway, I went to Australia.
And then a girl covered I Need a Lover, and she had a big hit with it.
I mean, mine went to like 30 or something like that.
But hers went to like two of that song.
And that's how it all started for me.
That was the very first thing.
With some girl covering one of my songs.
I lived in England for two years.
And they had the National Front there at the time.
I don't know if you know what that is.
The National Front was
If you're not English, get out of our country.
A couple guys in my band got beat up because they heard, you know, some of the National Front guys heard their accent, and it wasn't English.
So it was, like, dangerous to even go to the movies.
Keep your fucking mouth shut and your head down.