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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Creedence - What They Never Told You

"It was a critical mistake, and ultimately it broke up the band." How Creedence Clearwater Revival fell to pieces

A slew of acclaimed albums and hit singles, non-stop tours, a ruinous record deal and a singer who couldn't let go. What the hell happened to Creedence Clearwater Revival?

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“I don’t think we would’ve found any success had I not written any songs or had someone else been the lead singer. Me and the fellas would’ve been playing down at a local club somewhere”: The story of a rock classic that’s now hit over two billion streams

How John Fogerty created Creedence Clearwater Revival’s best-loved song

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"I was literally dumbfounded and shocked that it had happened":John Fogerty sprinkles rock'n'roll magic with songs and stories at intimate Tiny Desk Concert

"I realised I had passed into the land of greatness": John Fogerty tells the story behind the creation of his first great song

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“I was imprisoned wrongfully and sent away to the penitentiary for many, many years”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again

“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

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“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version. I lobbied very much to the record company”: John Fogerty has 'done a Taylor Swift' and re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs, note-for-note

Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...

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"Then disaster struck. I parked up and when I came back out I could see that someone had thrown a brick through the rear window of my car...": John Fogerty on the making and meaning of rock’s jauntiest ode to the apocalypse

He’s recently re-recorded Bad Moon Rising for Legacy

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“It always takes a certain amount of time to work up to where you were yesterday”: As he revisits his most beloved Creedence Clearwater Revival hits to some of the biggest crowds of his career, John Fogerty's guitar practice regimen is as rigorous as ever

The legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist is currently on the road promoting Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, a new album of Creedence re-recordings he undertook after finally gaining back the rights to the band's music

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“It was a foolish idea. I was heartbroken about my band breaking up… I gave it to a 12-year-old kid”: Why John Fogerty parted ways the iconic guitar he used on CCR hits – and how he got it back

The famed Acme Rickenbacker is the sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival, but when the band broke up and his heart broke, Fogerty gave it away

Guitar World

“Dumb idea to give a guitar away that has meant so much to you. I had given it to a 12 year-old kid, shortly after Creedence broke up”: John Fogerty explains why he let go of the iconic guitar he played on his classic hits – and at Woodstock

Fogerty admits the return of his Acme Rickenbacker used on many of Creedence Clearwater Revival's greatest tracks gave his Legacy rerecordings an authenticity – but why did he let it go?

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John Fogerty announces Legacy tour

Bringing the best of Creedence Clearwater Revival to an auditorium near you soon

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"I'm the one that created all this music, and I don't know that the world always understood that": John Fogerty on closure and reclaiming the Creedence legacy

Now at peace with his past and driven by a renewed purpose, John Fogerty's story is not over yet

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“I was imprisoned wrongfully and sent away to the penitentiary for many, many years”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again

“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

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‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control

As the driving force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he wrote some of the 60s’ most enduring songs. But a poor record deal followed by years in the wilderness drove him to the brink of breakdown. Now 80, he looks back

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"You've been a rainbow in my life, and this song has a rainbow in it": Watch John Fogerty play Have You Ever Seen The Rain? at intimate London show

The footage coincides with the new issue of Classic Rock, which includes an in-depth interview with John Fogerty

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Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty on recriminations,revivals and reunions: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Brian Wilson, Electric Light Orchestra, Halestorm, Bush, Rick Derringer, The Black Keys, Volbeat, Steve Harley, Joe Bonamassa & Joanne Shaw Taylor, Orianthi, Wytch Hazel and more

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“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version. I lobbied very much to the record company”: As Taylor Swift finally takes ownership of her original master recordings, John Fogerty has re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs, note-for-note

Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...

The Independent UK

Former Creedence Clearwater front man John Fogerty celebrates 80th with show in Manhattan

As he turned 80 this week, John Fogerty was in a mood to honor his past and to revise it

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John Fogerty does a Taylor Swift and remakes his Creedence Clearwater Revival classics

To celebrate owning his songs again, Fogerty is releasing "John's Version" recordings – listen to the first three now

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“He was interested but said, ‘I gave the guitar away. I feel stupid buying it’”: Norman Harris almost sold John Fogerty back his iconic ACME Rickenbacker – years before he was eventually reunited with it

Fogerty played the Rickenbacker 325 at Woodstock and on nearly every Creedence Clearwater Revival classic, but didn't want to pay for it

Guitar World

“I practice guitar ferociously”: Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty deploys Eddie Van Halen-style two-hand tapping on an Ibanez RG in unlikely guitar practice video

Even veteran guitarists have to keep their chops up

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Watch John Fogerty play a cacophonous Creedence classic on kid's instruments

John Fogerty joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on The Tonight Show for a gleeful romp through Creedence Clearwater Revival's Lookin' Out My Back Door

The National (Scotland)

Island festival strikes a chord with big-name acts

FED up with spending hundreds of pounds to see the bands he loves, musician Charlie Clark decided to bring them to play near his home instead.

Guitar World

John Fogerty: “I practice ferociously. I’m grateful God allowed me to keep going with my love of guitar. It didn’t end when I was 15, and it didn’t end when I became famous”

The iconic singer-songwriter reflects on his Creedence Clearwater Revival-era gear – including “the best-sounding solid-state amp ever made” – and the long-awaited release of the band’s famed 1970 Royal Albert Hall show

Louder

That time John Fogerty was sued for plagiarising John Fogerty

In 1985, John Fogerty was sued for releasing a song that allegedly ripped off another he'd written 15 years earlier – and it was a battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

John Fogerty review, Los Angeles: Proof Creedence Clearwater Revival have as many hits as The Beatles

The 77-year-old former Creedence frontman plays the hits at the Hollywood Bowl, and makes his case as the Great American Songwriter

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