Mellencamp Tributes Paul Newman - A Top Story This Week

09/30/2008
. Mellencamp Tributes Paul Newman was a top story for this week. Here it is again: (PR) John Mellencamp's musical heroes notwithstanding, no one had a bigger impact on him than the late Paul Newman. "In 1967, me and four other guys went to see 'Cool Hand Luke' every night for seven nights straight," recalled Mellencamp, who was a high school sophomore when he and his pals "stumbled on" Newman's classic prison drama film at Seymour's Vondee Theater. "It was winter and we wanted to get out of the house on a Monday night�and we came back Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We saved up our lunch money so we could go and by the end of the week we could recite every line!"

This, of course, was at a time of historic musical creativity. "There was so much great music to be discovered," Mellencamp continued. "Remember, there was Dylan, the Stones, the importance of James Brown. But for some reason on that week Paul Newman made the biggest influence on me, probably bigger than Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and James Brown--just by the nature of that character he played." - more on this story

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