Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival by Hank Bordowitz

Author:Hank Bordowitz [Bordowitz, Hank]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2007-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

The bitterness over the long battle to control his publishing would continue for years to come. As he stated in one of the many court cases involving his publishing rights, “When I hear ‘Proud Mary’ on the radio, it reminds me more of all the seventeen years of baloney than it does of any personal pride I may feel about the song.”

In the interim between 1980—when John renounced his rights to royalties from his Fantasy recordings—and when Centerfield came out, much had changed in the record business. A new medium, the compact disc (CD), rapidly began replacing the LP as the standard means for the commercial dissemination of sound recordings. This offered every record company the opportunity to resell its back catalog, as people replaced their scratchy, skippy vinyl recordings with the laser-read, immaculate sounding digital discs. A catalog like CCR’s gave forth another rain of gold into the Fantasy coffers. John, having signed over his royalties, saw none of it.

“I think the reason for all the vitriol,” Fantasy attorney Norman Rudman commented in 1986, “is that [Fogerty] thinks he made a bad deal in 1980 and he won’t accept responsibility for it. He’s very conscious of money and I think he wants his due. Most of John’s complaints come down to the fact that he doesn’t like to see other people making money when he’s not.”

“John didn’t have to ‘give up’ his royalties,” comments Stu. “It was his idea, and in my opinion, a very poor business decision. Of course, the label jumped at it.”

While this decision cost him a fortune, it freed him up to say anything he wanted about his old band and his old record company. He really felt he had nothing to lose. Tom, however felt differently. In a letter to John, he complained bitterly about the many interviews John gave over the years in which—Tom claimed—John destroyed Tom’s ability to make a living:

The best example in the past of your whitewashing the facts is Rolling Stone magazine, February 1970. Every time I read it, I wonder why I put up with your ego. Oh well, I left nine months later.

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