“It still reflects my personality and the way I do things. “I could have written that song yesterday,” he says. While times have changed since Fogerty addressed the world outside his window, the song's meaning remains universal it’s of its time and strangely timeless. Thirty-eight years later, Bad Moon Rising is still everywhere. Read Classic Rock, Metal Hammer & Prog for free with TeamRock+.The High Times and Dark Days of Creedence Clearwater Revival.John Fogerty: Wrote A Song For Everyone.Rival Sons cover Creedence for Record Store Day.And for every good movie that you’ve heard it in – for example An American Werewolf In London, which was a pretty cool movie – there were at least 10 more that were awful.” “I also objected to Bad Moon Rising being strewn around on TV commercials and any old movie,” he adds, “but we had no power in our contracts to veto where our music went. I’m not just saying this in a bitter way, just referring to my bandmates, but once we started having success and people were talking about us as the No.1 band in the world, I think some people took that as the sign that they could do anything they wanted and it would be a success. “I don’t know if that one song did it,” says Fogerty, “but the fact we were on our way maybe contributed to the breakdown. More open to debate is that its enormous success widened the cracks in the band, with the creative tug-of-war between the four members reaching breaking point in 1972. ![]() Hitting No.1 in the UK and No.2 in the US that summer, and lighting a rocket under parent album Green River, there’s little doubt that Bad Moon Rising was the song that made Creedence Clearwater Revival’s name. I suppose it became a ticking time bomb – that people were okay with it for a while, but not ultimately.” I don’t know how happy people were with that. By then I was very much the leader, but that had only just happened, sometime in the summer of 1968. “We were all on the same page, trying to make our band go. “Band relations were very good during the session,” he insists. ![]() Over several days of rehearsals in the shed at the bottom of Clifford’s garden, Bad Moon Rising was enthusiastically worked up before the band hit the recording studio for a session that Fogerty remembers as “the smoothest sailing we ever had”. Rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford didn’t share their leader’s misgivings.
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