John Mellencamp claims he left Columbia Records over former exec's racist remark
Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Music News
During an appearance on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show on Wednesday morning (March 1), John Mellencamp claimed that he insisted on breaking his recording contract with Columbia Records in 2001 after the label's then-president made a racist remark. Mellencamp publicly aired the incident for the first time while recalling the early days of MTV and the flack he caught for insisting that his videos feature more than just white faces.