John Fogerty

That album and that period of my life is a really interesting, really interesting,

I think that I'm not the only one.

It's just that I consider myself lucky.

So I had this enormous band, number one in the world.

Get screwed by the record company.

Lose my life savings.

Band breaks up.

bands in the newspaper saying nasty things about me, etc.

I'm held kind of in a dungeon by the record company, and I've got to either give them my music or no one else.

And I somehow managed to get through all that.

And it's 15 years after Creedence breaking up, basically.

Finally come out with an album called Centerfield.

There's happy, joyful music on it.

It goes to number one.

It's acclaimed, which is a wonderful thing.

And it's a hit.

Yeah.

I think what happened, this is the story I tell about it, it's as if you'd been unjustly in prison, convicted of a crime, put in the penitentiary for a long time, and one day they decide, oops, you're right, we made a mistake.

You're free because you didn't commit any crimes.

We're going to let you free.