Van Morrison

Born: Aug 31, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Genre: Rock
Styles: Folk-Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Jazz-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Album Rock, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Celtic Rock, AM Pop
Biography: Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll ...Read full biography
Astral Weeks
Released: 1968
Label: Warner Bros.
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Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history. For all that renown, Astral Weeks is anything but an archetypal rock & roll album: in fact, it isn't a rock & roll album ...Read full review
Moondance
Released: 1970
Label: Warner Bros.
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The yang to Astral Weeks' yin, the brilliant Moondance is every bit as much a classic as its predecessor; Van Morrison's first commercially successful solo effort, it retains the previous album's deeply ...Read full review
Photos
Van Morrison recreates his 1968 studio masterpiece, "Astral Weeks," live at Los Angeles' Hollywood...
An Irishman in America: Van Morrison performs in 1970, the year he would release his third solo...
Van Morrison onstage in 1972, during his sojourn as a transplant in California's Marin County. Live...
Van Morrison performs in 1975. Horns have been a fixture in Morrison's live bands throughout his...
Van Morrison onstage in 1978. (David Ellis/Retna Ltd.)
Van Morrison in a portrait from 1989. (Michael Putland/Retna Ltd.)
Van Morrison plays at the Montreux International Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2007....
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