{"id":145575,"date":"2018-01-11T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145575"},"modified":"2018-01-11T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:58:05","slug":"fogerty-irked-proud-mary-film-borrows-from-his-songs-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/11\/fogerty-irked-proud-mary-film-borrows-from-his-songs-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Fogerty irked &#8216;Proud Mary&#8217; film borrows from his song&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145576\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-John_Fogerty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145576\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-John_Fogerty.jpg\" alt=\"American rock musician John Fogerty, performing at Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, Italy 26\/07\/2009. (Photo By marco annunziata from Italy - john fogerty, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-John_Fogerty.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/675px-John_Fogerty-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American rock musician John Fogerty, performing at Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, Italy 26\/07\/2009. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=7561859\">Photo By marco annunziata from Italy &#8211; john fogerty, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; John Fogerty says he&#8217;s annoyed that Taraji P. Henson&#8217;s new film, \u201cProud Mary,\u201d borrows from his popular song&#8217;s name without his involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Fogerty does not own the rights to his infamous song. In a statement released Thursday, he says \u201cit irks me when people seek to capitalize on the popularity of my music\u201d for their own financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>Henson plays a hit woman in \u201cProud Mary,\u201d to be released on Friday. Its trailer uses Tina Turner&#8217;s version of Fogerty&#8217;s 1969 song.<\/p>\n<p>Fogerty says the movie \u201chas nothing to do with me, or my song.\u201d The 72-year-old adds that no one ever asked him about using his song that way.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Henson and Sony Pictures didn&#8217;t immediately return emails seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; John Fogerty says he&#8217;s annoyed that Taraji P. Henson&#8217;s new film, \u201cProud Mary,\u201d borrows from his popular &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":145576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[42780,42782,42781],"class_list":["post-145575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-john-fogerty","tag-proud-mary","tag-taraji-p-henson","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}