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Today In Music History: Happy 65th John Fogerty

Posted at 6:31 AM on May 28, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

1966 - Ike & Tina Turner's sweeping, majestic version of "River Deep, Mountain High" was released and tanked. It so embittered producer Phil Spector that he went into seclusion for two years.
1976 - The Allman Brothers Band broke up after Gregg Allman testified against his personal road manager, who was charged with drug trafficking. The band reformed in 1978.
1977 - In Paris, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland played together for the first time as members of a group led by Mike Howlett called Strontium 90.
1983 - The "Us Festival" opened in San Bernardino, California. It lost millions of dollars, largely because of huge fees paid to such performers as David Bowie and Van Halen.


Birthday Highlight:

John Fogerty is 65 today, born on May 28th 1945 in Berkely, California. Fogerty was the leader of one of America's biggest roots-rock bands, Creedence Clearwater Revival, a San Francisco Bay Area group that, as one writer put it, "sounded like they were straight out of the bayou." CCR's hits included songs like "Bad Moon Rising," "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," "Fortunate Son," and many others, including our choice this morning, "Green River."

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