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The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

John Mellencamp

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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Seymour
Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
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