John Fogerty

Overview

John Fogerty was born on May 28, 1945 in Berkeley, California, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Battleship (2012), The Manchurian Candidate (2004) and Blade (1998). He has been married to Julie Lynne Kramer since April 20, 1991. They have three children. He was previously married to Martha Ann Paiz.

Shortly after the release of his solo album "Centerfield", he was sued for plagiarizing himself. The lawsuit claimed that his song "The Old Man Down the Road" shared the same chorus as "Run Through the Jungle", a song from his CCR days. Fogerty ended up winning his case, by proving that many artists have very distinct styles that can make different compositions sound similar to unfamiliar ears.
Despite their great success, his band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, never had a #1 hit on Billboard's Top-10 chart. They had nine songs on the chart, with five of them peaking at #2.
On 7/4/87 he was the closing act, performing eight of his hit songs, on an all-day music marathon "Welcome Home" (Vietnam Veterans). This star-studded charitable event was telecast live from Washington, DC, on HBO.
When Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he refused to perform with Stu Cook and Doug Clifford. The pair were barred from the stage, and Fogerty performed with a band featuring Bruce Springsteen and Robbie Robertson.
Mother: Lucile Fogerty (d. 12/88); father: Galen Robert Fogerty (d. 1970s). Brothers: Musician,Tom Fogerty, with whom John played in several groups, including Creedence Clearwater Revival. Tom died in September 1990 from AIDS, contracted from a blood transfusion during back surgery. Older brother, Jim Fogarty; younger brothers, Daniel Fogarty and Bob Fogerty.

When I was a young guy, none of the people I liked got Grammys. That's just the way it was. They honored a lot of great people, but they just weren't in my musical universe. Then something changed 15, 20 years ago, where they started kind of getting a little hipper, honoring rock and pop and even rap. It seems to be not just reserved for old, gray white men anymore, kind of like our politics.
[When asked if he's talked to his former CCR bandmates] How do you shake hands with a rattle snake?
[on performing at Woodstock in 1969] I was searching to see if anybody was awake, because there were about half a million people asleep. These people were out, no matter what I did, they were gone. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from Hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: a quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his lighter, and in the night I hear, 'Don't worry about it John, we're with you.' I played the rest of the show for that guy.