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American writer (born 1948)
"Fortunate Son" was written and sung by John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival and released in 1969 as part of Willy and the Poor Boys; Fogerty wrote the song quickly—he has said in interviews i...
John Fogerty wrote “Fortunate Son” in 1969 as a pointed critique of class privilege during the Vietnam War era; he has said the song was sparked in part by the December 1968 marriage of David Eisenhow...
A substantial body of Vietnam-era songs explicitly attacked class and draft inequities: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” became the archetype of class-based draft criticism , while folk ...
"Fortunate Son," written and sung by and released by in September 1969 on the album Willy and the Poor Boys, is widely remembered as an emblematic protest-era rock song that linked anger over the to c...