
Without performances from Madonna, Leonard Cohen and the Dave Clark Five, it was up to John Mellencamp to deliver the kind of set we've come to expect from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. And he didn't disappoint, with "Pink Houses," "Smalltown" and his theme song "The Authority Song," which included just the right amount of his protest against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
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