John Fogerty Back With The Record Company That He Famously Warred With
Most music fans would gloss over such a small detail, but for years that simple statement was about as realistic as Neil Armstrong flying back to the moon.
When [Fantasy Records] the California-based record label was sold last year, it ended one of the most famously contentious artist-management relationships in music, freeing the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman to return to the company that distributed his most famous work. . . .
[A]fter the Concord Music Group, partly owned by legendary TV producer Norman Lear, bought Fantasy, Fogerty asked for a meeting with the new leadership. He came away feeling they respected him and his music. It also didn't hurt that Concord restored Fogerty's rights to royalties, which he had signed away decades ago to escape Fantasy.
They asked for Fogerty's opinion on decisions about how his old music would be used, which had never happened since his split with Zaentz.
"It's turned out to be, for me, a very, very happy, wonderful time in my life and career," he said. "Even a year ago I could not have envisioned this. The most happy thing is that I am reconnected with the music I made on Fantasy Records all those years ago, that I had basically been cut off from financially and emotionally for a long, long time."
Details here from the AP via Findlaw.com.