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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 bass player from Credence told Fantasy Records to sue John Fogerty for ripping off Credence.

What had happened, though, I found out in the trial, the bass player from Credence, Was another one of those people, I guess, that couldn't stand that I'd now had success in a later life. He went down to fantasy and saw Mr. Saul's ants and said, John is ripping off Credence. You should sue him.