Posted on 12/05/2023 10:35:56 AM PST by DallasBiff
Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has detailed the startling surgical procedure that saved his life as an infant.
Mellencamp, who was born with spina bifida – a condition where the spine and the membranes around the spinal cord are not properly connected, leaving the spinal cord exposed – underwent the pioneering operation not long after he was born in 1951.
"I had my head cut off when I was six weeks old," Mellencamp tells Esquire. "There were three other kids who had that same operation that day. The other kids died, and I lived. One girl made it for a while, and I used to see her at basketball games. She was paralysed from the neck down. She died when she was about, I don’t know, thirteen."
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After they cut it off, what did they do with it?
Yep. Back in the 80s, they were the American-made custom shop for ESP Guitars (a Japanese company more well-known for 80s headbanger Super Strats).
Though the music business has been pretty good to Mellencamp and I have no doubt he has a nice collection of vintage gear.
Meet the Birmingham man who saved John Mellencamp's life
Dr. Heimberger would die later that year at 97.
“Mellencamp on music, activism in the Trump era”
“Joe Scarborough sits down with the one and only singer/songwriter John Mellencamp for a talk about Mellencamp ‘s new music, his politics, activism in the age of Trump and the history of Farm Aid.
Sept. 22, 2017
Guess what direction this goes.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/mellancamp-on-music-activism-in-the-trump-era-1052645443829
I’ll check it out.
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