Mellencamp uneasy with McCain's song use
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PHOENIX  Â It may be "Our Country," but it's John Mellencamp's song. When the liberal rocker found out that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain was playing his songs at campaign events, his publicist wrote the campaign a letter explaining Mellencamp's political leanings and that the singer/songwriter supported Democrat John Edwards for the presidency.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's argument as he woos restive religious and social conservatives comes down to this: "I have a record that can be trusted." His GOP rivals, he suggests, do not.
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Critics have raised an eyebrow at the revival of the fundraising anthem, citing its outdated, insensitive lyrics.
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U.S. Republican  presidential candidate John McCain said on Monday even he had  some doubts about whether he could come back from the political  graveyard to which he was consigned last summer.
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Some of the songs have terrible lyrics.
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American President George Bush has been forced to stop using the 1970&#39;s pop anthem &#39;Still The One,&#39; for his election campaign as the song&#39;s writer, John Hall, says that not only was the song being used without his permission, he would rather have Bush&#39;s
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Even before the release of her heralded "Back to Black" album last year, Amy Winehouse's reputation as a tortured soul threatened to overshadow her music.
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DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. is hoping a new flag-waving anthem by John Mellencamp combined with iconic American imagery will help the redesigned Chevrolet Silverado become the country's number one pickup. The ad campaign, which begins Friday, is part of an escalating battle over a lucrative but shrinking segment.
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Over the past few weeks, Sen. John McCain has spent many solitary hours banished to a room so cramped and dank that it evokes his time as a Vietnam POW.
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The chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston has more than a feeling that he's being ripped off by Mike Huckabee.
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All right, look, we&#39;ve got a year  and a half to the election, right? So let&#39;s cut to the chase,  forget about the issues these clowns are going to be avoiding  anyway, and get down to what really matters: the campaign song.
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Neil Young said on Friday that he had lost all hope that music can change the world, as he presented a documentary about 2006 antiwar concert tour by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Berlin film festival, Agence France-Presse reported. âI know that the time when music could change the world is past,â Mr. Young said. âI really doubt that a single song can make a difference. It is a reality.â Mr. Young made no distinction between the Vietnam War, during which Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young earned a reputation for political activism, and the war in Iraq, which their tour condemned with songs like âLetâs Impeach the President.â âIt is all the same war, and it hurts everybody,â he said. âItâs a wrong way to solve a problem,â he said, adding that Americans were deluded if they thought they were liberating Iraq.
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MANCHESTER, N.H., June 5 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona found himself isolated here Tuesday night as he staunchly defended controversial immigration legislation against a barrage of criticism from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, who argued that the bill was deeply flawed and...
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The singerâs attempt to include his blues-rock stylings with his pop songs yielded mixed results at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Monday he fears an offensive by Iraqi insurgents similar to the Tet offensive by the Viet Cong that sent U.S. casualties soaring in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago.
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John McCain heads into Tuesday's Florida primary facing resistance from not only his fellow candidates, but also from the leaders of conservative talk radio, who some suggest have put their reputations on the line, as well.
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Just about a year and a half ago, Sen. John McCain went to court to try to curtail the influence of a group to which A. Jerrold Perenchio gave $9 million, saying it was trying to "evade and violate" new campaign laws with voter ads ahead of the midterm elections.