JOHN COUGAR
John Cougar (titled Miami in Australia) is the third album released by John Mellencamp and the first under the name “John Cougar”. Released in 1979, following the Australian success of “I Need a Lover” from the previous year’s A Biography (which did not receive a U.S. release), the album included the aforementioned track for U.S. audiences, as well as a re-working of A Biography’s “Taxi Dancer”. “I Need a Lover” was subsequently covered by Pat Benatar on her album In the Heat of the Night. (More from Wikipedia)
The third release by John Mellencamp was simply John Cougar; in Australia (according to Wikipedia), the album was called Miami.
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