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From single-handedly introducing the world to the infectious sounds of swamp rock, to performing one of the stand-out sets of Woodstock Festival during the height of hippiedom, Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s John Fogerty<\/a> has fostered a career that would strike envy into the hearts of guitarists and songwriters everywhere, but he owes no small part of that success to the inspiration of his own rock and roll heroes. <\/p>\n Despite his enduring position as a hero of 1960s counterculture, at the forefront of that cultural revolution which seemed to render everything that came before it utterly superfluous, it was during Fogerty\u2019s formative years during the late 1950s that he soaked up the vast majority of his musical inspiration \u2013 even if the CCR sound<\/a> that would make Fogerty a star seemed worlds apart from the comparatively archaic realm of rockabilly. <\/p>\n For Fogerty, like countless other young rock obsessives of his generation, the birth of rock and roll introduced him to the sheer power contained within a humble guitar. After all, the guitar has always been the weapon of choice for rock stars across the ages. \u201cFrom a very early age, guitar was important to me. Back in the \u201850s, there were a lot of instrumental records that featured guitar,\u201d the songwriter once recalled in an interview posted to his Facebook<\/a> page.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alongside those instrumental masterpieces, though, the key spark of inspiration that convinced Fogerty to devote his existence to rock and roll came in the form of Elvis Presley. \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly how old I was, I was in a little cafe-grocery store kind of thing up around Santa Rosa,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThere was a jukebox and \u2018My Baby Left Me\u2019 came on, the Elvis Presley song \u2013 well, I didn\u2019t know who it was, at first. \u2018What is that?\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n