By Steve Newton
I interviewed John Mellencamp for the first time back in May of 1983, when he was still called John Cougar.
He was touring behind his latest album, American Fool, but for some reason the Vancouver show got cancelled and the interview I did with him in advance never ran.
At one point in the conversation I asked Cougar whether he preferred performing live or recording, which led him to explain his approach to songwriting and the thrill he gets from writing good tunes.
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