Tom Fogerty: "Creedence Clearwater? I've Never Known Such A Bunch Of Egotistical Maniacs"
Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1972
IT'S ALWAYS sad when a group splits up amidst much bad feeling. It's even worse when one member leaves amidst equal bad feelings, and then the remaining members of the group shut their ranks against him as the rumours and snide remarks fly.
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