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\n\t \n\tTwo years ago, Fogerty got the publishing rights back to his Creedence songs, a triumph he saw as a liberation after decades as a \u201cprisoner of war.\u201d In an interview for Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s Last Word column \u2014 which also appears as a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a> <\/em>podcast \u2014 Fogerty looks back at his time in Creedence, discusses his early influences, shares thoughts on mortality and legacy, and much more. (To hear Fogerty\u2019s entire interview on Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, go here<\/a> for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, or just press play above.)<\/p>\n \n
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\n\t\t<\/span>ohn Fogerty<\/a> rerecorded some of the best-known songs<\/a> by his long-gone band for his new album, Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/a> Years<\/em>, a Taylor Swiftian move that\u2019s best understood as the culmination of his decades-long journey toward reclaiming those hits. Fogerty spent years in a series of ugly legal battles with the late executive Saul Zaentz, who owned Creedence\u2019s catalog; most infamously, Zaentz once unsuccessfully sued him for purportedly plagiarizing his own composition, \u201cRun Through the Jungle,\u201d with 1984\u2019s \u201cOld Man Down the Road.\u201d<\/p>\n