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A Song For Everyone - The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival (Hardcover)
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A Song For Everyone - The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival (Hardcover)
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From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political
upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger
than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage
of top-10 singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous soundtrack
to one of the most volatile periods in modern American history, and
they remain a staple of classic rock radio and films about the era.
Yet despite their enduring popularity, no book has ever sought to
understand Creedence in conversation with their time. A Song for
Everyone finally tells that story: the thirteen-year saga of an
unassuming suburban quartet's journey through the wilds of 1960s
pop, and their slow accrual of a sound and ethos that were almost
mystically aligned with the concerns of decade's end. Starting in
middle school, these Californian friends and brothers cut a
working-class path through the most expansive decade in American
music, playing R&B, country, and rock 'n' roll under a variety
of names as each of those genres expanded and evolved. When they
finally synthesized those styles under a new name in 1968,
Creedence Clearwater Revival became instantly epochal, then fell
apart under the weight of personal grievances that dated back to
adolescence. As musicians and as men, they embodied the
contradictions and difficulties of their time, and those dimensions
of their career have never been explored until now. Drawing on
wide-ranging research into the social and musical developments of
1959-1972, extensive original interviews with surviving Creedence
members and associates, and unpublished memoirs from people who
knew the group closely, A Song for Everyone is the definitive
account of a legendary and still-beloved American band. At the same
time, it is also a cultural history of those same years--from Elvis
to Altamont, Eisenhower to Watergate--seen through the eyes of four
men who encapsulated them in song for all time, told by one of the
rising figures in contemporary music writing.
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