SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 – Former Creedence Clearwater Revival guitarist TOM FOGERTY (b. November 9, 1941 in Berkeley, California as Thomas Richard Fogerty) died at age 49 due to complications from AIDS acquired during a blood transfusion.
Tom Fogerty lived comfortably in Scottsdale, Arizona for the remainder of his life, thanks to his Creedence royalties. He was an occasional surprise call-in guest on local radio station KSLX-FM. At the October 1980 reception for Tom’s marriage to Tricia Clapper, all four members of CCR reunited and performed for the first time in a decade. They took the stage once more for a final time at a school reunion three years later. But the brothers sadly grew further apart over the course of the ’80s before Tom died in 1990 of AIDS (specifically from a tuberculosis infection), having contracted HIV from blood transfusions for back ailments. Towards the end of his life, he allegedly said to his brother John, “Saul Zaentz is my best friend.” Zaentz was the chief of Fantasy Records, a man John has described as his “worst enemy” (and who he wrote the scathing “Zaentz Can’t Dance” song about), effectively meaning the two would never mend their relationship. After his death, a music compilation titled “The Very Best of Tom Fogerty” was released.
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