John Fogerty
Craig Werner, Goldmine, 3 July 1998
Just before he embarked on last summer's Blue Moon Swamp tour, John Fogerty told Goldmine that "the new John and the old John are the same guy." The Blue Moon tour was the first time in nearly a quarter century that Forgerty had incorporated Creedence Clearwater Revival classics like 'Proud Mary', 'Fortunate Son'"and 'Bad Moon Rising' into his touring repertoire. Embittered by a seemingly endless string of legal battles with his old record label, Fantasy, and estranged from his former bandmates, Fogerty had refused to play any CCR material in the 1986 tour that followed up on his No 1 album Centerfield.
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