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Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally, including in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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2026· 26 entries
“can you write about Morrison”
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“and it was magnificent. It seemed like there was nothing he couldn”
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“m still moved, I still care! Why? At the same reading, another person tried to turn it around, turning to me, as if the first person”
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“I stopped touring years ago in the real sense of the word. I like to do lots of different projects and work with different musicians.”
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“discovered several years after he first began composing music that some of his songs lent themselves to a unique major modal scale (without sevenths) which of course is the same scale as that used by bagpipe players and old Irish and Scottish folk music.”
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“meant to be a commercial album.”
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“Two horns and a rhythm section—they”
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“s release when a friend mentioned that he had bought a copy. Morrison was unhappy with the album and said he”
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“Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel”
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parade.com: 1965 Pop Rock Song, Sung by 19-Year-Old Van Morrison, Became an Undeniable International Hit
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parade.com: Legendary Screen Star, Who Once Performed With Van Morrison, Turns 70
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Harrogate Advertiser: Ripley to host band that's accompanied Van Morrison more than 3,000 times in concert
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Herald.Wales: Music great Van Morrison to play at Swansea Building Society Arena
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Ultimate Guitar: Van Morrison Escaped His Record Contract by Recording 31 Nonsense Songs in One Afternoon
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grunge.com: The 1964 Van Morrison Song Patti Smith Turned Into A Punk Rock Classic
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Yahoo: 1970 Van Morrison Hit, Envisioned With a Folk Feel, Became a Spiritual Metaphor for Life
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UNCUT: Introducing the new Uncut: Joy Division, Hendrix, Van Morrison, The Cramps, Elliott Smith and more!
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Mshale: Van Morrison - Belfast Movie - Soundtrack Kevin Gonzalez (8mjh6kJ1Pd)
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BroadwayWorld: THE VAN MORRISON ALUMNI BAND to Bring Weekly Residency to London's Emerald Theatre
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AOL.com: Jim Morrison Claimed His Parents Were Dead — But His Father May Have Helped Launch the Vietnam War 62 Years Ago This Week
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Published video “Harry Duncan Interviews Van Morrison”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing (Live)”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said (Live)”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (Live)”.
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Released album “Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge”.
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2025· 10 entries
Published video “Van Morrison - Back to Writing Love Songs (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - The Only Love I Ever Need Is Yours (Official Visualiser)”.
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Forbes: Van Morrison Charts A New No. 1, Almost 60 Years Into His Career
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Published video “Van Morrison - Remembering Now (Official Video)”.
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Released album “Remembering Now”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - Remembering Now (Official Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Exclusive Van Morrison In Conversation with Dylan Jones, June 2025”.
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Published video “Van Morrison - Cutting Corners (Official Visualiser)”.
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Forbes: Van Morrison Earns His First New Hit ‘Single’ In More Than Half A Decade
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American Songwriter: “Well, I Feel Pissed Off Now”: Why Van Morrison Was Not the Biggest Bruce Springsteen Fan
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “New Arrangements and Duets”.
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With Live at Orangefield, taken from a run of 2014 concerts at his former secondary school
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2023· 5 entries
The Guardian: Van Morrison review – gently shakes, rattles and rolls back the years
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Released album “Accentuate the Positive”.
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Released album “Moving on Skiffle”.
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The Guardian: Mark Seymour: Sweet Thing by Van Morrison is the most perfect song of all time
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Returned to his roots with Moving on Skiffle and Accentuate the Positive
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2022· 4 entries
The Guardian: Van Morrison takes legal action against Northern Ireland health department and minister over Covid article
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Released album “What’s It Gonna Take?”.
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Morrison and his song "Down to Joy" for "Belfast" were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards
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Morrison issued legal proceedings against Swann over an opinion piece in Rolling Stone magazine that was critical of Morrison's anti-lockdown songs and actions
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2021· 5 entries
The Guardian: Northern Ireland health minister to sue Van Morrison over Covid remarks
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Released album “Latest Record Project, Volume 1”.
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The Guardian: Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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The Guardian: Van Morrison to start legal action over Northern Ireland Covid ban on live music
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Morrison recorded tracks with Eric Clapton criticising 'harm-reduction' measures
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Van Morrison review – transcending the pandemic with mystic soul
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The Guardian: Northern Ireland health minister criticises Van Morrison anti-lockdown songs
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Three Chords & the Truth”.
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Morrison received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Jimmy Page during the International Achievement Summit in New York City
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “The Prophet Speaks”.
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Released album “You’re Driving Me Crazy”.
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2017· 4 entries
Released album “Versatile”.
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Released album “Roll With the Punches”.
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Awarded Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting (2017).
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The Americana Music Association gave Van Morrison the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Keep Me Singing”.
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Was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland
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2015· 9 entries
American Songwriter: 33 Van Morrison Albums To See Digital Release; Available On All Streaming Services
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Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2015).
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Released album “Duets: Re‐Working the Catalogue”.
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Has released – on average – more than an album a year
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Morrison sold the rights to most of his catalogue to Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music
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Was marked by celebrations in his hometown of Belfast, commencing with BBC Radio Ulster presenting programs including "Top 70 Van Tracks" between 26 and 28 August
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Of downloads since 2004 and airplay since 2010 had "Brown Eyed Girl" as the most popular song of the entire 1960s decade
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Recorded an album of collaborations, Duets: Re-working the Catalogue, which featured, among others, Steve Winwood, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Mick Hucknall, and Morrison's daughter Shana Morrison
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For services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland
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2014· 2 entries
Ultimate Classic Rock: How Van Morrison Broke Free on ‘It’s Too Late to Stop Now’
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Morrison's former high school Orangefield High School, formerly known as Orangefield Boys' Secondary School, closed its doors permanently
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2013· 1 entry
Morrison was awarded the Freedom of Belfast, the highest honour the city can bestow
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Ultimate Van Morrison Collection”.
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Released album “Born to Sing: No Plan B”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “The Van Morrison Christmas Album”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “The Essential Van Morrison”.
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Morrison was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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In which Morrison's then-wife Michelle took legal action against a different neighbour, who was building a balcony that she felt would overlook the Morrison home and intrude on their privacy, was withdrawn in 2015
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “The Man”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Van Morrison (The Bang Years)”.
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“I do not consciously aim to take the listener anywhere. If anything, I aim to take myself there in my music. If the listener catches the wavelength of what I am saying or singing, or gets whatever point whatever line means to them, then I guess as a writer I may have done a day”
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “Astral Weeks / Moondance / His Band and the Street Choir”.
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Released album “Keep It Simple”.
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Released album “Van The Man”.
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Released album “Van Morrison Collection”.
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There were comparisons to his youthful voice of 1968
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2007· 6 entries
Released album “Still on Top: The Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Best of Van Morrison, Volume 3”.
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Released album “At the Movies: Soundtrack Hits”.
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Released album “The Great Voices”.
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Released album “It’s All Right”.
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On the album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 and also as a single in the UK
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Pay the Devil”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Magic Time”.
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Released album “Golden Legends”.
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2004· 6 entries
Released album “Timeless Classics”.
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Morrison was one of the guests on Ray Charles' album Genius Loves Company
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Rolling Stone magazine ranked Van Morrison forty-second on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"
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Released album “Here Comes”.
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Released album “Midnight Special”.
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Released album “Madame George”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”.
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Released album “...At His Best”.
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Released album “Freaky If You got This Far”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Down the Road”.
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Released album “Talking to the Spirit”.
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2001· 4 entries
The case was taken to court in 2001, with the initial rulings going against Morrison.
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With the initial rulings going against Morrison
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Nine months into a tour with Linda Gail Lewis promoting their collaboration You Win Again, Lewis left the tour, later filing claims against Morrison for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination
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Both Someone Like You and Bridget Jones's Diary
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “You Win Again”.
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Released album “The Early Years 67–68”.
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Morrison ranked twenty-fifth on American cable music channel VH1's list of its "100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll"
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Released album “Brown Eyed Girl”.
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Released album “Van Morrison”.
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1999· 6 entries
Released album “Super Hits”.
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Released album “Back on Top”.
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Released album “The Early Years”.
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Released album “It's Allright”.
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Released album “The Back Room”.
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Released album “In Session”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “The Philosopher’s Stone”.
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Released album “Brown Eyed Beginnings”.
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And the title track "Don't Look Back", a duet with Morrison, took the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
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Released album “12 grandes éxitos en versión original”.
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “The Healing Game”.
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Morrison released The Healing Game
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Released album “The Masters”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison”.
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Released album “New York Sessions ’67”.
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Released album “Spanish Rose”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Days Like This”.
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Released album “The Great Van Morrison”.
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The BMI ICON award in October 2004 for Morrison's "enduring influence on generations of music makers", and an Oscar Wilde: Honouring Irish Writing in Film award in 2007 for his contribution to over fifty films, presented
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1994· 1 entry
That Rolling Stone magazine felt stood out as: "the culmination of a career's worth of soul searching that finds Morrison's eyes turned toward heaven and his feet planted firmly on the ground"; and The Skiffle Sessions –
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1993· 5 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1993).
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Released album “Too Long in Exile”.
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Is thought to allude to his dealings with the New York music business during this period
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Released album “The Best of Van Morrison, Volume 2”.
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“When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)”
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “The Lost Tapes, Volume 2”.
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Released album “The Lost Tapes, Volume 1”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “Hymns to the Silence”.
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Released album “Bang Masters”.
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Wrote and produced four songs for Tom Jones released on the Carrying A Torch album and performed a duet with Bob Dylan on BBC Arena special
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Them”.
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Released album “The Best of Van Morrison”.
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Released album “Enlightenment”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Avalon Sunset”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “Irish Heartbeat”.
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Released Irish Heartbeat, a collection of traditional Irish folk songs recorded with the Irish group the Chieftains, which reached number 18 in the UK album charts
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Morrison's father died in 1988, and his mother, Violet, died in 2016.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Poetic Champions Compose”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “No Guru, No Method, No Teacher”.
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1985· 7 entries
Morrison also wrote the musical score for the movie Lamb starring Liam Neeson
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“Nights in Copenhagen with Van Morrison”
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“When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration”
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“The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere....”
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“With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that.”
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“Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.”
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“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.”
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “A Sense of Wonder”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Inarticulate Speech of the Heart”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Beautiful Vision”.
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Had him returning once again to the music of his Northern Irish roots
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"Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “The Legends of Rock”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Common One”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Into the Music”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Wavelength”.
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “A Period of Transition”.
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Released album “This Is Where I Came In”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Veedon Fleece”.
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1973· 4 entries
Released album “Hard Nose the Highway”.
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With the backing group the Caledonia Soul Orchestra
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Released album “T.B. Sheets”.
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Receiving mixed, but mostly negative, reviews
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Saint Dominic’s Preview”.
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Saint Dominic's Preview revealed Morrison's break from the more accessible style of his previous three albums and moving back towards the more daring, adventurous, and meditative aspects of Astral Weeks
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Gave an interview with the Dublin-based magazine Spotlight, in which he said, "I'm definitely Irish
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “Tupelo Honey”.
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When they performed a duet on the title track of Hooker's 1972 album Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
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Released another well-received album, Tupelo Honey
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1970· 4 entries
Released album “His Band and the Street Choir”.
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Released album “Moondance”.
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Shana Morrison, who has become a singer-songwriter
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Became his first million selling album and reached number twenty-nine on the Billboard charts
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1968· 4 entries
Released album “Astral Weeks”.
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“When Astral Weeks came out, I was starving, literally.”
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And he was noted to have remained a "master of his transcendental craft" in 2009 while performing the Astral Weeks songs live
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The album originally received an indifferent response from the public, but it eventually achieved critical acclaim
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1967· 2 entries
Morrison became involved in a contract dispute with Berns' widow, Ilene Berns, that prevented him from performing on stage or recording in the New York area
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Released album “Blowin’ Your Mind!”.
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1964· 1 entry
Morrison lived in Belfast from birth until 1964, when he moved to London with the rock group Them.
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1958· 1 entry
The band played at some of the local cinemas, and Morrison took the lead, contributing most of the singing and arranging
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1957· 1 entry
At the age of twelve, Morrison formed his first band, a skiffle group, "The Sputniks", named after the satellite, Sputnik 1, that had been launched in October of that year by the Soviet Union
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-08-31.
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