MELLENCAMP BAPTISED DURING CHURCH RECORDING SESSION
Rocker JOHN MELLENCAMP turned a recent recording session into a baptism c eremony after telling vergers at the church studio he had never been bapt ised.
The Jack & Diane singer has been recording an album on tour, turning fa mous "rooms" into impromptu studios - and when he stopped off at the Firs t African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia he decided it was time to g et baptised.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine, "I recorded right on the pulpit, and u nderneath me was the baptismal.
"On one song, I sing, ‘I ain’t been baptised.’ Someone from the church said, ‘We’ll baptise you.’" Mellencamp agreed, adding, "There were attendants taking care of me, dr essing me… I felt downright uplifted for a few hours."
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