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"Bad Moon Rising" is a 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty. It was the lead single from their album Green River and the group’s breakthrough hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in September 1969.
A common mondegreen of the last line is "There's a bathroom on the right". (The correct line is "There's a bad moon on the rise".) Fogerty himself has been known to occasionally substitute the "bathroom" version of the lyric as a joke during his live shows, including on his 1998 live album Premonition.
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- Ann Wilson, lead singer of Heart, recorded a cover version of this song for her 2007 solo release Hope & Glory with country music singer Gretchen Wilson.
- Other artists, such as Rolf Harris, Type O Negative, Lagwagon, Social Distortion, Rasputina, Rancid, The Reels, 16 Horsepower, and Steel Train have also covered the song.
- A reggae version was released in 1981 by Jah Malla on Atco Records.
- An innovative version appears on an album (COMD2009 On The Rise) that was released in 1986 by the Scottish traditional music group, The Battlefield Band (the group has a tradition of ending their first set with one or another of Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit songs). The first half of track 6 comprises an instrumental version of John Fogerty's Bad Moon Rising presented in a unique fashion (their version is usually introduced to live audiences as "a surfing song from the Outer Hebrides"), whilst the second half of track 6 comprises "The Rising Moon Reel", written by their piper, Dougie Pincock, which is a stirring reel.
- Rolf Harris covered the song. His version appears on the albums Can you tell what it is yet, Rolf Rules OK? and King Rolf.
- Nirvana (band) played this song live.
- The song was covered by psychobilly band The Meteors; the cover can be found not only on their album Monkey's Breath, but on their best of album as well.
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[edit] References in other media
- Sportscaster Chris Berman gave the nickname to former NFL receiver Andre Rison, "Andre 'Bad Moon' Rison".
- There is an episode of the TV show The West Wing titled "Bad Moon Rising."
- There is an episode of the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond titled "Bad Moon Rising."
- In the Cartman Sucks Episode of South Park, Cartman calls one of his pictures of Butters "New Moon Rising"
- Manchester United fans have a song called "Stretford End Rising" based on the song.
- In Stephen King's book The Shining the character Jack turns on the radio to this song. Some take it as foreshadowing of future events at the Overlook Hotel in the film to the book.
- The season 1 finale of "Hannah Montana" is entitled: "Bad Moose Rising" based on this song.
- AIDS activist and artist David Wojnarowicz entitled his 1989 multimedia collage "Bad Moon Rising" to address with critical acuity the AIDS epidemic as well as to document his own suffering.
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