Douglas Raymond Clifford (born April 24, 1945) is an American drummer who is nicknamed "Cosmo". He is best known as a founding member of
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American Rock music, rock band formed in El Cerrito, California. The band consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, h ...
for which he was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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in 1993. After the group disbanded in late 1972, Clifford released
a solo album 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.
An early influence on Clifford's playing was
The Beatles
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, with their appearance on ''
The Ed Sullivan Show
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'' in February 1964 being of particular significance. "They were a quartet and we said, wow, we can do that. If these guys from
England
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can come out and play rock 'n' roll, we can do it. We bought Beatle wigs. We went to the drama store, and I guess they were
Three Stooges wigs at that time." Clifford, Cook, and the Fogerty brothers grew up together in
El Cerrito, California
El Cerrito (Spanish language, Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 United States census, 2 ...
.
Clifford attended
San Jose State University
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alongside Stu Cook.
Discography
*''
Cosmo'' (1972)
*''Magic Window'' (2020)
;
The Don Harrison Band
*''The Don Harrison Band'' (1976)
*''Red Hot'' (1977)
;
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
*''Recollection'' (1998)
;Clifford/Wright
*''For All The Money In The World'' (2021)
;Other
References
External links
Classicdrummer.com*
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1945 births
Living people
American rock drummers
Creedence Clearwater Revisited members
Creedence Clearwater Revival members
Musicians from Palo Alto, California
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
People from El Cerrito, California
San Jose State University alumni
Drummers from California