Having relocated to the San Francisco area, Morrison began recording ... local gigs while he was making the album. DOUG MESSENGER (GUITAR): By January 1972 Van and I were living together at ...

1) The most sensical interpretation of the terrible cover art & UK-digital-only distribution ... This whole thing is VERY Van Morrison. — Ryan H. Walsh (@JahHills) November 8, 2018 11) The ...

Van Morrison will celebrate his 80th birthday this summer with a concert in his hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, featuring special guests.

On the first album to feature key collaborators Mark Isham, Peter Van Hooke and James Brown veteran Pee Wee Ellis, Morrison creates an upbeat and very fluid kind of funky folk-rock. Bookended by ...

Recorded with an unstarry cast of rock’n’roll session men at Morrison’s Wool Hall studio, near Bath. WALTER SAMUEL (ENGINEER): Some of Van’s later ... cut most of the album in one day.

Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years ... and he called a few of us up there and he unveiled them as we went. The whole album was done in about three evenings. It was all cut at night.

Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years ... We were all out of our element, which has a lot to do with how that album feels. The atmosphere… I don’t know how to put it.

Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years ... follow the words and the voice. On that album he was as connected to that space as he had ever been. JEF LABES (PIANO, ORGAN): The material ...

Meet the real VAN MORRISON ... stories behind 10 of his greatest solo albums. And Morrison himself lifts the lid on his extraordinary art. “I don’t really know,” he says, “if there ...

Entire bands dismissed on Christmas Eve. A 33/1 bet on Celtic Mist... Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years, Van The Man has been one of the most enigmatic heroes of the rock pantheon.