You can see Daniel Webster's corn still standing tall in a straight row, six feet high. The contrast represented a very strong image to me," Fogerty said in Bad Moon Rising. Part of the reason why the Woodstock Music Festival in was such a monumental event, a definitive cultural gathering of the Baby Boomer generation, was because nearly every major rock act of the era took the stage over the course of the weekend. All those acts were prominently featured in the Woodstock documentary and its live-recorded soundtrack , which helped solidify the importance of the event in the collective consciousness.
Creedence Clearwater Revival also played the festival, but the band's presence there has often been forgotten and overlooked, according to the Chicago Tribune. Ironically, Woodstock may not have become a concert of great magnitude without Creedence — once the chart-topping band agreed to be a headliner, a slew of other acts signed up, too.
The reason why Creedence's Woodstock set is lost to history is because it wasn't initially or conclusively preserved, left out of the Woodstock documentary and soundtrack record at the behest of frontman John Fogerty. When one thinks about the top-selling and most successful musicians of all time, names like "the Beatles," "Elvis Presley," and "Michael Jackson" likely come to mind.
Indeed, all those acts scored at least a dozen 1 hits each per Insider and rank at or near the top of the Recording Industry Association of America's list of musicians who sold the most albums. Perhaps because their time in the spotlight was a relatively brief four years , or because they're so explicitly associated with the late '60s and early '70s sound, Creedence Clearwater Revival can be overlooked when discussing the pantheon of pop-rock superstars.
However, in , according to ChartMasters , the best-selling band on the planet was Creedence Clearwater Revival, which moved more LPs than heavyweights like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Creedence Clearwater Revival is also the holder of an impressive but also mildly dubious chart record. According to Slate , the group hit 2 on the Billboard Hot five times. It was more of what CCR did best: hard rock with wailing vocals laced with elements of Southeastern U. Fogerty had a deep appreciation of and was extremely influenced by the old-time rock 'n' roll performed by Southern musicians.
In the end, Specialty eventually dropped the case. Of the original members of Creedence Clearwater Revival who have had solo careers, John Fogerty — the group's lead singer and chief songwriter — has been the most successful, scoring hit singles like "Jambalaya On the Bayou ," "The Old Man Down the Road," and "Centerfield," a baseball stadium standard.
But he wasn't the first member of the extremely successful CCR to leave the band to go it alone — that would be rhythm guitarist, and his brother, Tom Fogerty. According to Ultimate Classic Rock , John's tight and unrelenting creative control over the band lead to Tom's exit.
After recording the album Pendulum , Tom Fogerty departed Creedence in and, over the next ten years, released five solo albums that didn't sell very well or yield any hit singles. Meanwhile, back in the depleted Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty took his brother's motivations to heart and let the other two band members, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, write and sing the majority of songs on the next album, Mardi Gras.
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Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all similar artists. View all trending tracks. Loading player…. As if they were pure as the driven snow. Anyone who has ever been in a band knows how disgusting it is that these guys sold their voting rights to an outsider. They have shamed themselves forever.
Nothing will ever change that. If the fans were disappointed with what happened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, I regret that.
To the fans, all I can say is, things in the real world change. But if you asked me a hundred more times, when the conditions were like this, I would do the same thing. The year before Creedence got in, the Yardbirds got inducted. I was there. That was funny. Fuck them! My mouth dropped open. And then my brain caught up with his words. That was absolutely right. What other emotion could he have? He stuck up for himself. I had tried to reconcile with Tom long before he died.
I wanted to do that with Tom for our mother. So I started a dialogue. Face it. Deal with reality. So I write a letter. There were probably about eight points on my list. That meant going to depositions, meeting with and paying my attorney to prepare a defense, and dealing with all the anxiety that goes with the legal system.
Many thousands of dollars later, Tom decided to drop the lawsuit. John Fogerty. Unfortunately, our mom passed away. It was family business. All I could think was, Oh, great — Doug and Stu want to drag Tom a r ou n d the world in a wheelchair. I thought they really wanted to do this for themselves.
It was bizarre and disgusting to me. I went to see Tom a couple of times in , shortly before he died. He was very thin and fragile-looking. Always wearing sunglasses, even indoors.
And still kind of detached, in that way he had been, going all the way back to or After I won the plagiarism trial, I ran into Tom.
He had become so aloof, maddeningly detached.
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