John Fogerty empathizes with Taylor Swift while fighting the Braun scooter

If anyone can find empathy in Taylor Swift's public quarrel with his former label, that's John Fogerty.

The American rock icon and former leader of the Credence Clearwater Revival group has been fighting for decades to obtain the publication rights of the CCR's discography, a legal tension – where he has already been sued for plagiarism of his own music – which led the songwriter of "Fortunate Son" to the United States Supreme Court.

In an interview published Monday, Fogerty told Variety that he "was feeling really empty inside, really sad" by learning Swift's coming and going between Big Machine Records and the new owner of the label, Braun Scooter.

Big Machine, which released Swift's first six albums, was sold last month to the entertainment mogul for an estimated $ 300 million – a move that Swift described in a cover story as his "worst case scenario" quoting the tensions between Swift and Braun. customer Kayne West.

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Fogerty told Variety that he "came to that in a very similar way," citing internal turmoil with JRC members after the group's dissolution in 1972.

"As in my case, it is not so much money as the property of your children," Fogerty said. "After such a long period of so important benefits for someone else, deep down in your mind, you think you will finally have the opportunity to own what you have created. Is only justice. "

A fight between artist and label for musical rights – one of the oldest and most discussed of the sector – sparks a key discussion: is this the artist or label responsible for the success of the music? former?

"As everyone knows, it's the artist," Fogerty said. "All lawyers, public relations and the rest of the people can stand and pay homage to what is happening, but without the artist, no one is going anywhere."

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