John Mellencamp: The Essential Album-by-Album Guide

A BIOGRAPHY (1978)
Key Tracks: "I Need a Lover," "Night Slumming"
Quick Take: Switching labels and management but still stuck with the name Johnny Cougar, Mellencamp produced the import-only A Biography, which swaps Stonesisms for a sound closer to that of the Faces and is noteworthy only for having produced his first hit (in Australia, anyway), the casually sexist "I Need a Lover."

A Biography (Riva)