Van Morrison | A Greatest Singer
Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945), better known as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic “Gloria”. His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single “Brown Eyed Girl” in 1967. After Berns’s death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Though this album gradually garnered high praise, it was initially a poor seller,More info:wiki
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#10 Van Morrison: 30 essential songs,More info:telegraph
#9 Van Morrison Details Expanded ‘Healing Game’ Reissue,More info:rollingstone
Van Morrison will release a deluxe edition of The Healing Game, his acclaimed 1997 LP, generously expanded with outtakes, rare tracks and a complete live concert recording. Out March 22nd via Legacy and Morrison’s Exile Productions, Ltd., The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) will be available in three-CD and digital formats, with a single-LP reissue of the original album coming out simultaneously.
As a preview of the set’s deluxe version, you can now hear one of the bonus tracks: a live version of the album’s title song, recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in July 1997.
#8 LEGENDARY VAN MORRISON RECORDING RELEASED THEN REMOVED,More info:ultimateclassicrock
A Van Morrison live recording from 1968, which has been the subject of fan discussion for years, was briefly released on iTunes without announcement then removed around 24 hours later.
As Stereogum reported, Morrison began developing his trademark post-Them sound during a series of low-key performances in Boston during August of that year, accompanied by a local bassist and flautist. The experiments would shape his groundbreaking second album Astral Weeks.
#7 Watch the Lost Live Version of Van Morrison’s ‘Caravan’,More info:thedailybeast
Often counted among the greatest live albums of all time, Van Morrison’s It’sToo Late to Stop Now features the Irish singer-songwriter at his prime in live performances.
The 1973 tour, featuring his newly formed Caledonia Soul Orchestra, holds a mythical place among Van the Man’s fans for its marathon brass-and-string-laden renditions of classics like “Into the Mystic” and “Cyprus Avenue” alongside soulful renditions of pop standards like “Bring It On Home to Me.”
#6 Keep singing his praises: the pain and joy of being a young Van Morrison fan,More info:independent
#5 Marvelous night even with a low-key Van Morrison,More info:sfgate
Van Morrison was having a good night. Nothing transcendent, mind you. But for fans of the famously unpredictable Irish singer-songwriter, who all-too-frequently phones in his performances, the first set of his two-night stand at the intimate SFJazz Center in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 18, felt like a minor triumph.
If the newly knighted Belfast native, who just turned 71, was aware of the sense of occasion that came with playing in the venue’s 700-capacity Miner Auditorium rather than the big festival sheds where he spent his summer, it didn’t show.
#4 PS PICKS: THE ENIGMATIC NATURE OF VAN MORRISON’S ‘ASTRAL WEEKS’,More info:psmag
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#3 Van Morrison,More info:bbc
#2 Van Morrison – Live for Radio 2 In Concert,More info:bbc
#1 Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’ Turns 50: A Track-by-Track Look at Its Unearthly Beauty,More info:billboard
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