John Fogerty health: Singer on being left ‘full of unhappiness’ after bitter band breakup
He said: “I would say to Julie at the end of a day of working on stuff, ‘It just put all this stuff back in my brain and makes me kind of think about it again,’”
“Working on the book forced me to have that stuff back in my consciousness. It wasn’t pleasant, let’s put it that way.
“In some ways, the day the book was finally really finished, I was quite relieved to not have to be digging that up again.”
In the book, he writes openly about the legal battles that followed the band’s breakup.
The singer was taken to court by Fantasy Records, who own rights to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s music, including the songs John Fogerty wrote.
They suggested his solo hit The Old Man Down the Road, released in 1985, sounded too much like the Creedence song he wrote called Run Through the Jungle from 1970.
He emerged victorious from the trial in 1988.
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