Editing Mojo Nixon (section)

==Early career==
Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. was born in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]], on August 2, 1957.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mojo-nixon-mn0000578028/biography|title=Mojo Nixon biography|last=Huey|first=Steve|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=August 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809043424/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mojo-nixon-mn0000578028/biography|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = Bilstein>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/|title = Mojo Nixon, Unabashed Outlaw Cult Hero, Dead at 66|last = Bilstein|first = Jon|date = February 7, 2024|accessdate = February 7, 2024|magazine = [[Rolling Stone]]|archive-date = February 8, 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240208010118/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/|url-status = live}}</ref> He paired with [[Skid Roper]] in the early 1980s in San Diego. Roper mostly provided instrumental backup to Nixon's lyrics. Nixon and Roper released their first album in 1985 on [[Enigma Records]], ''[[Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper (album)|Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper]]''. The song "Jesus at McDonald's" from that album was the duo's first single.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Nixon and Roper's third album, 1987's ''[[Bo-Day-Shus!!!]]'', featured the song "Elvis Is Everywhere", a deification of [[Elvis Presley]], which is his best known song (Nixon later declared his personal [[Trinity|religious trinity]] was Presley, [[Foghorn Leghorn]], and [[Otis Campbell]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2022/08/11/elvis-presley-45-years-after-death-priscilla-presley/10165620002/|title=45 Elvis events in the 45 years since the death of the King: A year-by-year look|first=John|last=Belfuss|publisher=[[Commercial Appeal]]|date=August 10, 2022|accessdate=February 8, 2024|archive-date=August 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818214009/https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2022/08/11/elvis-presley-45-years-after-death-priscilla-presley/10165620002/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper were also recorded in San Francisco during these early years by producer [[Sylvia Massy]] at [[CD Presents]] for the ''Rat Music For Rat People'' compilation album.

Throughout the late 1980s, Nixon and Roper produced several satirical pieces lampooning contemporary celebrities, such as [[MTV]] [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]] [[Martha Quinn]], in "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin", and [[Rick Astley]] and [[Debbie Gibson]], in "[[Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child]]". Nixon appeared in several promotional spots for MTV during this period, but the network's decision not to air the video for "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant ..." prompted him to sever ties with the network. Meanwhile, Nixon and Roper also lampooned contemporary American culture and social issues in songs such as "I Hate Banks", "Burn Down the Malls", and "The Amazing Bigfoot Diet".{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Nixon and Roper parted ways late in 1989. The following year Nixon recorded a solo album on Enigma Records called ''[[Otis (Mojo Nixon album)|Otis]]''. On this album, Nixon continued his assault on [[pop culture]], as in the song "[[Don Henley]] Must Die", which caused a fresh round of controversy, even to the point of Nixon's record company begging radio stations ''not'' to play it.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} (Henley himself was unfazed; on July 31, 1992, at The Hole in the Wall in [[Austin, Texas]], the former Eagle jumped onstage and performed the song with Nixon, causing Nixon to praise Henley as having "balls as big as church bells", as well as to ask, "Is Debbie Gibson here too?")<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/|title=Don Henley Must Die|website=Austinchronicle.com|date=June 20, 2014|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=May 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524145354/https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/|url-status=live}}</ref>