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I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

John Fogerty

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John Fogerty
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
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Berkeley
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John Cameron Fogerty
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