Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival (HQ - 5.1 Studio )

What this video is

Released on April 16, 1969, 'Bad Moon Rising' arrived at one of the most turbulent moments in postwar American history — months after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, during the height of Vietnam War protests, and weeks before Woodstock. Written by John Fogerty, the song drew on apocalyptic imagery rooted in a 1941 film, 'The Devil and Daniel Webster', and was recorded on February…

Why it matters

A canonical document of the Swamp Rock and Roots Rock movements, this promo clip encapsulates CCR's genre-defining rejection of West Coast psychedelia in favour of stripped-back Americana. The band's plain aesthetic influenced decades of heartland rock visual language, from Tom Petty through Bruce…