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Van Morrison

Born: Aug 31, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Genre: Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop/Rock, R&B, World
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
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