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: 65 "Crumblin' Down" was the first single released by Mellencamp to include his real last name: previous releases were credited to "John Cougar."
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It featured a chain-smoking Mellencamp in intentionally ripped denim jeans, dancing and kicking over chairs. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupPink Houses John MellencampUh-HUH 1983 John Mellencamp, under exclusive license to The Island Def Jam Music G. The video for "Crumblin' Down" received heavy play on MTV. I felt like I was pulling the wool over everyone's eyes." In the photograph, taken by Beth in the park near their house, Liam is wearing. The song was the last one recorded and the first single. After poring, for months, over websites and reviews and YouTube vlogs. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything and the walls were crumbling down on the poor. In a 2016 Mellencamp-dedicated exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a display was emblazoned with the following quote from Mellencamp: "Crumblin' Down is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. : 64Īccording to Green, the song attempts to answer the question of what to do when success eventually fades, and "the big-time deal falls through." : 64 The song touches on Mellencamp's fame as well as the frustrations of losing one's livelihood: the lyrics were inspired, in part, by Mellencamp's cousin losing his job as an electrical engineer. Green had begun a song with lines about walls crumbling down he and Mellencamp then built the song by trading lines, attempting to top one another.

He contacted Green, with whom he had previously written " Hurts So Good," to solicit ideas.

It was the last song recorded for Uh-Huh after listening to the masters for the other tracks recorded, Mellencamp decided that the album needed a song that would work as the album's lead single. "Crumblin' Down" was written by Mellencamp and longtime writing partner George Green.
