John Mellencamp

And it's good because a little ditty and I don't have to sing anymore.

They sing the whole song.

And I might go, oh yeah, and that's it.

And then the audience sings it, which is great.

Which is great.

Well, I was trying to, and I think I did it successfully.

It was a good transition.

I didn't, you know, I could call up somebody and go, hey, it's John Mellencamp.

They wouldn't take my call.

I could call back two seconds later and go, it's John Cougar, and they would take my call.

So I figured this will have to be a slow change.

Elvis Costello tried to do the same thing and didn't work.

What was his real name?

I don't remember, but that's not his real name.

but you know he was tired of being Elvis Costello and he went back to his real name and people just wouldn't accept it but with me it was such a slow burn thing to get over so

You know, again, what?

Lucky.

I was a kid.

Do you know that every fucking movie star that we ended up watching on those black and white things, that's not any of their real names.

They're all changed.