CBB - FORTUNATE SON cover Credence Clearwater Revival

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MIKE - chitarra
GIUSEPPE - tastiera , voce , cori
LUCIO - basso
CARLO - batteria

from 45 single - september 1969
Fortunate Son is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released as a single in September 1969 to promote their fourth album Willy and the Poor Boys. The song, which was the first to be considered by the "Billboard" as a double hit (considering the b-side) on November 15, 1969, reached number 14 in the United States of America charts on November 22 of the same month and then rising week after week (it reached number nine the following week and finally reached number three on December 20). Exactly one year later, again in December, it won the RIAA Gold Disc.
Pitchfork places it at number seventeen on their "List of the 200 Greatest Songs of the '60s", while Rolling Stone places it at position no. 99 on the list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
The song is an anti-war anthem and one of the most representative of the counterculture of the sixties, which criticizes gingoism and all those who support the use of military force in a passive and unconscious way (avoiding financial expenses or conscription). Although published during the Vietnam War, it is not explicit in its criticism of that particular conflict, but takes issue with the slight indifference of the noble classes (the families who gave birth to the "lucky children") of America and the their retreat from the costs of nationalistic imperialism.
The inspiration for Fortunate Son came from the 1968 marriage of David Eisenhower, President Dwight David Eisenhower's nephew, to Julie Nixon, Richard Nixon's daughter. Author and singer John Fogerty told Rolling Stone: Julie Nixon was hanging out with David Eisenhower, and you had a feeling that none of those people were going to be involved in the war. In 1968 the majority of the country thought that morale was high among the troops, and eighty percent of them were in favor of the war. But for some of us watching closely, we were straight into trouble. The song has been widely used to protest military actions and elitism in Western society and, particularly in the United States of America, as an added consequence of its popularity, it has also been used in completely unrelated situations, such as for advertise blue jeans.

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