John Fogerty
The Pyramid Stage, Saturday June 28, 2025
Having just turned 80, John Fogerty is having the time of his life. Bouncing around the Pyramid like a teenager, grinning like a loon, he recently wrested back control of his song publishing following decades of legal wrangling, and “I’m going to play every one of them today!”
It’s a bold intention for most songwriters of a certain age, but for Fogerty a single hour could never encompass the sheer scale of even just his greatest hits. So although there’s no room for Lodi, Commotion, I Put A Spell On You or I Heard It Through The Grapevine, this is still the very definition of all killer, no filler.
With sons Shane and Tyler in his band, a three-line guitar attack that spins through a ten-minute solo-swapping wig out during The Old Man Down The Road, life could not be better for The Fog. In 2007 he played to an audience of a certain age on West Holts stage - where today Kneecap are scaring the government - his silvery hair flying in the breeze. Today he’s looking out from under his miraculously restored chestnut coiffure at a sea of people mostly a third his age, all bellowing every word he’s written back to him.
Neatly re-imagining the name of his pre-Creedence band as The Golly Gollys (rather than the now-problematic Golliw*gs), their single Fight Fire is today’s only non-Creedence tune, wedged between the steamy swamp groove of Born On The Bayou, an appropriately choogling Keep On Chooglin’, rampaging Fortunate Son and howling Bad Moon Rising that turns the woodchipped field into a massive hay ride.
Fogerty’s songs, and indeed the man, are so brimming with vitality that even that sometimes perfunctory 2007 performance was magical. But today, the lead in his publishing pencil newly refilled and sharpened, he and his sons turn in a performance that borders on the transcendent, an almost spiritual experience.
John Fogerty At Glastonbury 2025 Setlist:
Up Around The Bend
Green River
Born On The Bayou
Who’ll Stop The Rain
Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Fight Fire
Keep On Chooglin’
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Cotton Fields
Down On The Corner
The Old Man Down The Road
Fortunate Son
Bad Moon Rising
Proud Mary
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