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Van Morrison
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George Ivan Morrison (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a Grammy Award-winning Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and saxophone. Featuring his characteristic growl — a unique mix of folk, blues, Irish, scat, and Celtic influences — Morrison is widely considered one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll.Critic Greil Marcus has gone so far as to say that “no white man sings like Van Morrison.”
Known as “Van the Man” by his fans, Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Northern Irish band Them, penning their seminal 1964 hit “Gloria”. A few years later, Morrison left the band for a successful solo career, which commenced with Astral Weeks, an album consistently rated on both critics and listeners “best” lists.
Morrison has pursued an idiosyncratic musical path. Much of his music is tightly structured around the conventions of American soul and R&B, such as the popular singles “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, “Domino” and “Wild Night”. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as his classic album Astral Weeks and lesser known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as “Celtic Soul”.
Known as “Van the Man” by his fans, Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Northern Irish band Them, penning their seminal 1964 hit “Gloria”. A few years later, Morrison left the band for a successful solo career, which commenced with Astral Weeks, an album consistently rated on both critics and listeners “best” lists.
Morrison has pursued an idiosyncratic musical path. Much of his music is tightly structured around the conventions of American soul and R&B, such as the popular singles “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, “Domino” and “Wild Night”. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as his classic album Astral Weeks and lesser known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as “Celtic Soul”.
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Bright Side of the Road
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Gloria
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Beside You
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Madame George
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Shoutbox
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raliogab wrote:
van IS the man.
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mackeral0 wrote:
van is god
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breakingthrunow wrote:
Van Morrison is a religion. He's like my spiritual guru - nothing and no one else has ever managed to move me the same way. Autumn makes me want to listen to him even more.
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Van_fan wrote:
for sure. it would be like a neverending dream coming true...
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Dontfret wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time!
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Van_fan wrote:
I've never felt so much spirit in one place as I do in Van's music
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lilavanbommel wrote:
me2
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athaiya wrote:
I love his songs!
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bbaker364 wrote:
I loooooove this Song
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LexiconLynch wrote:
Ripping all my dad CD's. Hopefully going to be listening to a chunk of them one by one.
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Van_fan wrote:
Listened to "Behind The Ritual" from Keep It Simple. One of his strongest pieces. Brilliant.
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pchander wrote:
Just watched August Rush, and Moondance was one of the songs being sung. An amazing song.
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Van_fan wrote:
alligatorwino: Common One is beautiful. It sounds as if you'd take a long walk with Van through the countryside or so. Just etheric. Veedon Fleece is not that etheric and relaxed, it is a bit quicker and still quite easy sometimes... Both are excellent albums....it's worth listening to them Greetings, Fabi
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athaiya wrote:
amazing artist!
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Well, they're the only two albums of his I heard so far. I got Veedon Fleece and Common One are they as good as Astral Weeks and Moondance?
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Van_fan wrote:
Moondance is not even one of his best pieces...IMO :P
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Astral Weeks and Moondance are beautiful
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irishtim wrote:
What an awesome singer/songwriter. Timeless!
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Van_fan wrote:
Where are his more critical songs like "Showbusiness" "New Biography" "Ivory Tower" "Drumshanbo Hustle"? I mean, "Into The Mystic" is magic and "Brown Skinned-- " ah, pardon me, "Brown Eyed Girl" is a classic, but come on :P
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