genre bad moon rising 
Rolling Stone is an American biweekly ___MASK64___ that focuses on popular ___MASK15___ . It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner , who is still the ___MASK64___ ' s publisher , and the music critic Ralph J . Gleason . It was first known for its ___MASK18___ coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S . Thompson . In the 1990s , the ___MASK64___ shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth - oriented television shows , film actors , and popular music . In recent years , it has resumed its traditional mix of content . John Cameron Fogerty ( born May 28 , 1945 ) is an American musician , singer and songwriter , early in his career best known as the lead singer , lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the band Creedence Clearwater Revival ( CCR ) and later as a successful solo recording artist . Fogerty was listed on " Rolling Stone " ___MASK64___ ' s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists ( at number 40 ) and the list of 100 Greatest Singers ( at number 72 ). ___MASK36___ is a ___MASK62___ genre combining elements of blues and rock . It is mostly an electric ensemble - style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock . From its beginnings in the early - to mid - 1960s , blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock , Southern rock , and heavy metal . ___MASK36___ continues to be an influence , with performances and recordings by several popular artists . The San Francisco Bay Area ( referred to locally as the Bay Area ) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California . The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose , San Francisco , and Oakland , along with smaller ___MASK58___ and rural areas . The Bay Area ' s nine counties are Alameda , Contra Costa , Marin , Napa , San Francisco , San Mateo , Santa Clara , Solano , and Sonoma . Home to approximately 7 . 65 million people , the nine - county Bay Area contains many cities , towns , airports , and associated regional , state , and national parks , connected by a network of roads , highways , railroads , bridges , tunnels and commuter rail . The combined statistical area of the region is the second - largest in California ( after the Greater Los Angeles area ), the fifth - largest in the United States , and the 43rd - largest ___MASK58___ area in the world . The Official Charts Company ( previously known as the Chart ___MASK40___ Network ( CIN ) The Official UK Charts Company and also referred to Official Charts ) is a British inter - professional organisation that compiles ___MASK43___ " official " record charts in the United Kingdom , including the UK Singles Chart , the UK Albums Chart , the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK ___MASK30___ Downloads Chart , as well as genre - specific and ___MASK77___ charts . The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Millward Brown , and claims to cover 99 % of the singles market and 95 % of the album market , and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week . Thomas Richard " Tom " Fogerty ( November 9 , 1941  September 6 , 1990 ) was an American musician , best known as the ___MASK46___ guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival . The UK Singles Chart ( currently entitled Official Singles Chart ) is compiled by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ), on behalf of the British record industry , listing the top - selling singles in the United Kingdom , based upon physical sales , paid - for downloads and streaming . To be eligible for the chart , a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ) as either a ' single bundle ' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio track not longer than 15 minutes with a minimum sale price of 40 pence . The rules have changed many times as ___MASK32___ has developed , the most notable being the inclusion of digital downloads in 2005 and streaming in 2014 . ___MASK44___ is ___MASK60___ that looks back to rock ' s origins in folk , blues and ___MASK55___ . It is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid subgenres from the later 1960s including country rock and Southern rock , which have been seen as responses to the perceived excesses of dominant psychedelic and developing progressive rock . Because " roots music " ( Americana ) is often used to mean folk and world musical forms , roots rock is sometimes used in a broad sense to describe any ___MASK60___ that incorporates elements of this music . In the 1980s , roots rock enjoyed a revival in response to trends in punk rock , new wave and heavy metal music . `` Bad Moon Rising '' is a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival . It was the lead single from their ___MASK30___ Green River and was released in April 1969 , four months before the ___MASK30___ . The song reached No . 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and No . 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September 1969 ( see 1969 in music ) . It was CCR ' s second gold single . The song has been recorded by at least 20 different artists , in styles ranging from folk to reggae to psychedelic rock . In 2011 , Rolling Stone ranked it # 364 on its `` 500 Greatest Songs of All Time '' list . In usage in the United States , a bayou ( or , from Cajun French ) is a body of water typically found in a flat , low - lying area , and can be either an extremely slow - moving stream or river ( often with a poorly defined shoreline ), or a marshy lake or wetland . The name " bayou " can also refer to a creek whose current reverses daily due to tides and which contains brackish water highly conducive to fish life and plankton . Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States , notably the Mississippi River Delta , with the states of Louisiana and Texas being famous for them . A bayou is frequently an anabranch or minor braid of a braided channel that is moving much more slowly than the mainstem , often becoming boggy and stagnant . Though fauna varies by region , many bayous are home to crawfish , certain species of shrimp , other shellfish , catfish , frogs , toads , American alligators , American crocodiles , herons , turtles , spoonbills , snakes , leeches , and a myriad of other species . Etymology . The word was first used by the English in Louisiana and is thought to originate from the Choctaw word " bayuk ", which means " small stream ". The first settlements of Bayou Teche , and other bayous , were by the Creoles , and that is why bayous are associated with Creole ___MASK15___ . Stuart Alden " Stu " Cook ( born April 25 , 1945 ) is an American bass guitarist , best known for his work in the ___MASK51___ band , Creedence Clearwater Revival . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK66___ in ___MASK27___ Europe . Lying off the north - ___MASK27___ coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK66___ ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK66___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK66___ in the European Union . Douglas Ray " Cosmo " Clifford ( born April 24 , 1945 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American ___MASK51___ drummer best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival . After the group dissolved in the early 1970s , Clifford released a solo ___MASK30___ and later joined CCR bassist Stu Cook in the Don Harrison Band . In 1995 , Clifford and Cook formed the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited , performing live versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs . Southern ___MASK51___ is a subgenre of ___MASK60___ and a genre of ___MASK9___ . It developed in the Southern United States from ___MASK51___ and roll , ___MASK55___ , and blues , and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals . Although the origin of the term Southern ___MASK51___ is unknown , " many people feel that these important contributors to the development of ___MASK51___ and roll have been minimized in ___MASK51___ ' s history ." Creedence Clearwater Revival , often informally abbreviated to Creedence or CCR , was an American ___MASK51___ band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s . The band consisted of lead vocalist , lead guitarist , and primary songwriter John Fogerty , his brother rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty , bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford . Their ___MASK18___ style encompassed the roots ___MASK51___ , swamp ___MASK51___ , and blues ___MASK51___ genres . Despite their San Francisco Bay Area origins , they played in a Southern ___MASK51___ style , with lyrics about bayous , catfish , the Mississippi River , and other popular elements of Southern United States iconography , as well as political and socially - conscious lyrics about topics including the Vietnam War . The band performed at 1969 ' s famed Woodstock Festival . The Vietnam ___MASK90___ , also known as the Second Indochina ___MASK90___ , and known in Vietnam as Resistance ___MASK90___ Against America or simply the American ___MASK90___ , was a ___MASK90___ that occurred in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 . It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the ___MASK38___ of South Vietnam . The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union , China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States , South Korea , Australia , Thailand and other anti - communist allies and the ___MASK90___ is therefore considered a Cold ___MASK90___ - era proxy ___MASK90___ .