A strutting psych-blues jam with visions of “great cities that toppled and drowned,” it’s a highlight from the Pink Floyd ...

Having relocated to the San Francisco area, Morrison began recording regularly ... He was taking off, and we took off with him. To me, it was Van’s return to the mysticism of Astral Weeks.

The legend of Van Morrison is one of the richest and most complicated in musical history, but most often it boils down to a certain familiar portrait. According to one observer, he “sometimes ...

Those contrasts all came into play in the making of “Caravan,” Morrison’s joyous paean to the gypsy life that brightened up Moondance, his classic 1970 album.Even though the song wasn’t ...

When talking about innovative and creative rock bands, Pink Floyd is usually at the top of the list. Throughout its duration from the mid-1960s and into the 2000s, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters ...

Early on he wondered why the saxophone solos on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and Van Morrison's Moondance were so bad. “You're a jazz critic, that's why” a friendly drifter told him. Mark packed ...

“We’re honored to bring him back. He’s a legend.” Who: Van Morrison When: 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 26 Where: Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa ...

Van Morrison the healing, thrilling artist touched by genius, and Van the sometimes gruff, inscrutable man have maintained an uneasy balance for 50 years now. A defining inspiration to Bruce ...

Junk, a tractor-driving farm boy from London, Ohio, was a Pink Floyd fan who got rock-and ... the Wall” to an audience of half a million. Van Morrison played, backed up by the East German ...

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