Van is the only person I have ever met in the music business that, if all the elements are right and everything is in place, he can take ...

At the end, Van was smiling like a Cheshire cat: “I think we got it!” We tried a second take and – of course – it fell apart. By contrast, we beat “Saint Dominic’s Preview” to death.

Van Morrison the healing ... in Tupelo Honey (1971), a blatant influence on early Springsteen. But by Saint Dominic’s Preview, released in 1973 as his marriage broke down, Morrison was ...