At the height of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s popularity in 1969, Fogerty was faced with an ultimatum from bandmates: drummer Doug Clifford, bass guitarist Stu Cook, and his brother, guitarist Tom Fogerty. John Fogerty was the band’s lead guitarist and wrote most of their songs, including “Proud Mary,” “Born on the Bayou,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Lodi,” “Green River,” “Commotion,” “Down on the Corner,” and “Fortunate Son.”
“I got sort of surprised — kind of shanghaied — into this,” Fogerty says. “And everybody was demanding, 'We want to all write songs, and we want to make up our own parts on the records' — that sort of thing. And it was basically an ultimatum.”
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Reluctantly, Fogerty gave in but found that his bandmates weren’t delivering new material when it came time to record the album.
“So November comes, we start showing up at the studio,” he says. But no one, aside from him, was bringing in songs. “So I start filling in the gap.” One of those gap fillers was “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”, a song that he says “is literally about Creedence breaking up.”
However, the streaming era has made the song more popular than ever. With more than two billion streams on Spotify alone, “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” is the band’s biggest hit, followed by “Fortunate Son” with 1.7 billion streams.
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