On This Day – Fogerty Sued Fogerty, and Lost!
Nov 7, 2010 On This Day
Posted by
Phil
On this day in 1988 John Fogerty, late of Creedance Clearwater Revival, was sued by the owners to the rights of CCR’s songs. They said that Fogerty’s song ‘The Old Man Down The Road’ plagiarised his own song “Run Through The Jungle”. Specifically, that they shared the same chorus.
In other words, Fogerty was said to have copied himself.
He (they) lost, he did not copy himself. His later song, though similar to his previous song, was dissimilar enough not to be the same.
I hope that is clear, I shall be asking questions later, class dismissed.
Tags: John Fogerty, On This Day, rock and blues, Run Through The Jungle, The Old Man Down The Road
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