John Fogerty Album

JOHN FOGERTY

John Fogerty is the second solo album by former Creedence Clearwater Revival vocalist/guitarist John Fogerty, released in 1975. The album consists of a mix of originals and cover songs, and displays a move back towards the rock music of his Creedence Clearwater Revival days, and away from the country and traditional sounds of his previous album, The Blue Ridge Rangers. The song “Rockin’ All Over the World” was covered by the band Status Quo in 1977, becoming one of their most recognizable songs, while Dave Edmunds made his cover of “Almost Saturday Night” one of his staple songs. (More from Wikipedia)

John Fogerty’s second solo album in 1975, John Fogerty spawned a minor hit “Rockin’ All Over the World”. Also, Status Quo – a solid British rock band whose decades of blockbuster recording output are virtually unknown in this country (other than their 1967 psychedelic hit song “Pictures of Matchstick Men”) – earned a 1977 hit album, Rockin’ All over the World in the UK with Fogerty’s song as the album’s title track. The song gained even wider exposure when Status Quo opened their set at the 1985 Live Aid concert with “Rockin’ All Over the World”; they were just the second band to perform at the London portion of the event (in Wembley Stadium), and the song was used by the BBC to promote their coverage of what is one of the best known rock concert events to this day.

(January 2013)