John Fogerty feels a huge burden has been lifted from him since regaining the lost rights to all of his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. Back in January, Fogerty purchased the legendary song catalog from Concord for an undisclosed sum.
Fogerty, who's now on tour with a band that features his two sons, Shane and Tyler, told NBC that with the songs now safely at him and his family, he can rest — and rock — comfortably: “Now I get up in the morning and all of that’s forgotten. I’m a family man. And I love being that guy. There's no locked door anymore on my heart.”
For years, Fogerty refused to play his Creedence hits rather than line the pockets of the late-Saul Zaentz, who owned the band's masters through Fantasy Records. In an effort to extricate himself from Creedence's back-breaking contract, Fogerty sold his publishing and record royalties to Zaentz in 1980 and didn't start performing the songs regularly again until the 1990's.