Entertainment reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. We know all the songs — “Proud Mary,” “Fortunate Son,” “Born on the Bayou,” “Down on the Corner,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Looking Out My Back Door” — and Sunday night, we’ll get to hear them live from their creator. Those are, of course, the songs of Creedence Clearwater Revival and their creator is John Fogerty, who will celebrate them at Pinewood Bowl.
The “we” who know all the songs isn’t just the 3,000 or so people who will make their way to the Pioneers Park amphitheater Sunday. It’s a surprisingly wide multi-generational, trend-defying swath of listeners, as Rolling Stone unearthed this week. “CCR are the most awesomely bizarre case of a classic band that’s bigger than ever right now, without anyone really noticing,” wrote Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield.
“But their greatest-hits collection 'Chronicle' is riding high on the Billboard 200 every week, always somewhere in the thirties or forties. It’s currently Number 39, right ahead of the new Ariana Grande album. It’s higher than anything by the Beatles or the Stones or Zeppelin or Queen.
” The continuing presence of “Chronicle” on the charts and the continuing ubiquity of the songs in movie and television soundtracks, and on terrestrial and, especially, satellite radio, led the magazine to headline its sto.