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The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival exploring the bands legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late 60s and early 70s

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 twoyear barrage of top10 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 thirteenyear saga of an unassuming suburban quartets 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 decades end Starting in middle school these Californian friends and brothers cut a workingclass path through the most expansive decade in American music playing RampB 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 wideranging research into the social and musical developments of 19591972 extensive original interviews with surviving Creedence members and associates and unpublished memoirs from people who knew the group closely A Song for Everyone is the definitive account of a legendary and stillbeloved American band At the same time it is also a cultural history of those same yearsfrom Elvis to Altamont Eisenhower to Watergateseen 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