These essential Patti Smith songs are some of her best work, ranging from nostalgic joyful tunes to to serious protest songs.

A rich distillation of Morrison’s later work ... WALTER SAMUEL (ENGINEER): Some of Van’s later albums are patchy, but Back On Top he really did enjoy. The songs are good.

It's such a different album and advancement from their earlier songs that perhaps people sadly still find that hard to adapt ...

Light My Fire” wasn’t the Doors’ first single — that honor went to “Break on Through (To the Other Side).” It was actually ...

1990’s The Best of Van Morrison was a surprise bestseller, followed into the Top 5 that year by Enlightenment, whose title song seemed to draw a line under Morrison’s religious search on recor ...

Eric Clapton and Van Morrison turn their joint single “The Rebels” into a top 40 hit on several charts this week.

we see a very tipsy Robertson drop the needle on Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey,” which over the years became a shared favorite of the two friends. Morrison then walked out to sing that song ...

It’s incredibly special,” said the Luther Burbank Center’s vice president of programs, noting Morrison hasn’t played there since 2005. “We’re honored to bring him back. He’s a legend.” ...

In 1976, Thin Lizzy were touring Jailbreak in the US and breaking big. Then disaster struck. Band manager Chris O’Donnell ...

Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years ... to work out how to do that within Van’s vocabulary. That became the song in his shows for years, the ultimate mountain to climb.