Happy birthday, John Mellencamp – 10/7

10/7. Happy birthday, John Mellencamp, 70.

He had a laid-back approach to college: “When I was high on pot, it affected me so drastically that when I was in college there were times when I wouldn’t get off the couch. I would lie there, listening to Roxy Music, right next to the record player so I wouldn’t have to get up to flip the record over. I’d listen to this record, that record. There would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone.” – Rolling Stone