With their classic brand of rootsy, Americana rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival
became one of the big US bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, winning over
both the hippy generation and the macho, Southern rednecks and breaking into the
pop charts with their hits Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising and Born On The Bayou.
After an acrimonious split in 1972, chief singer songwriter John Fogerty turned
solo with debut The Blue Ridge Rangers (1974), before he hit Number 1 in the US
album chart with Centerfield (1985) and scored the hits The Old Man Down The
Road and Rock & Roll Girls. Re...