GETTING PAST JOHN FOGERTY
It’s a little before 1 a.m. and John Fogerty is sitting all alone in the vast lobby of Pittsburgh’s William Penn Hotel. Two nights earlier in Memphis, Fogerty had begun his first tour since the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1972.
GETTING PAST JOHN FOGERTY
DANIEL BROGAN
BY
"I have no interest in being an oldies act singing 'rolling on the river' until I die."
It’s a little before 1 a.m. and John Fogerty is sitting all alone in the vast lobby of Pittsburgh’s William Penn Hotel.
Two nights earlier in Memphis, Fogerty had begun his first tour since the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1972. That show had been a raving success, but here on the tour’s second stop, things had gotten a bit ugly.
The two-hour show had ended with a standing ovation, and the songs from his new album, Eye Of The Zombie, had been well-received. But with each song’s conclusion, the chant had grown louder and more insistent:
‘ ‘ Creedence... Creedence... Creedence...”
Back in Memphis, there’d been enough advance publicity that the crowd knew of Fogerty’s vow to never again play his CCR classics. Here, if the word had gotten out, it hadn’t seemed to matter.
‘ ‘ Creedence... Creedence... Creedence...”