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17 Apr 2026
John Fogerty was sued for sounding like himself by his former record company.

I got sued for sounding like myself. What? Yeah. How'd that happen? I'll tell you. So, and I didn't find this out. And there was eventually a trial. So it's not, many people think that that's funny. You got sued for sounding like yourself. Wow, that's funny. Well, no, you're getting a legal lawsuit that's probably going to take away, A lot of your money, and you're going to go through three, four years of anguish. Well, anyway, ended up in a trial. He was suing me for, at the time, an enormous amount of money $144 million for his whatever, metal anguish or something. The logistics, I guess you'd call it, I had made a new song called The Old Man Down the Road. It was on my album. It was my comeback. on center field. And I had finally gotten away from Fantasy Records, which is where Credence was, and Saul's Ann's, who owned it. So, you know, when you finally escape and get success over somewhere else, the former people tend to be jealous, I guess. And so he was suing me.

17 Apr 2026
The record company ushered Credence Clearwater Revival into an offshore tax plan.

The record company had gotten us into this offshore tax plan. And I'm saying this with a smile because nowadays it just sounds so, you know, some guy comes walking up to you and got a trench coat on a corner in New York City. Hey, buddy, you know, you're probably going to avoid that guy. But the record company was in this tax thing. And for all we knew, we were going to be paying. 90% income tax, right? I mean, the tax laws are pretty stringent and pretty high. And so they offered us, or basically kind of ushered us into this plan, an offshore tax plan, and it would allow us to pay a lot less taxes, probably somewhere between 10 and 20%, something like that.