SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Episode 1 — Pictured: Musical guest John Cougar performs on October 8, 1983 — (Photo by: Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Us Singer John Mellencamp Rehearses On the Main Stage Several Hours Before the Start of the Third Day of the 2004 Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston Massachusetts Wednesday 28 July 2004 the Convention to Nominate the Democratic Party's Candidate For the Presidential Election Will Run Through 29 July (Photo by Matt Campbell/EPA/Shutterstock)
John Mellencamp performs in concert during Farm Aid 2024 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on September 21, 2024 in Saratoga Springs, New York. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)
John Mellencamp performs in concert during Farm Aid 2024 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on September 21, 2024 in Saratoga Springs, New York. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)
John Cougar (second left) performs, with his hand the Zone, during a dress rehearsal for the television show 'Saturday Night Live' at Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, April 10, 1982. With him are, from left, Larry Crane, on guitar, Kenny Aranoff (mostly obscured), on drums, Toby Myers, on bass guitar, and Mike Wanchic, on guitar. Crane's shirt reads 'Seymour,' a reference to the Indiana city where both he and Cougar were born. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
