SAN DIEGO — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Creedence Clearwater Revival mastermind John Fogerty has a very sound reason why he initially wanted to tip his hat to Taylor Swift by naming his just-released album of newly rerecorded Creedence hits “Taylor’s Version.”

“I kind of lobbied the people at my record company to call it ‘Taylor’s Version’. That would get a lot of attention, wouldn’t it?” said Fogerty. “I didn’t realize we would end up calling it ‘John’s Version,’ but that makes perfect sense.”

It certainly does on an album whose full title is: “Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years — John’s Version.”

More than two decades before Swift was born in 1989 — and 41 years before she unwittingly signed over to her record company the ownership of the master recordings of her

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