Entire bands dismissed on Christmas Eve. A 33/1 bet on Celtic Mist... Meet the real VAN MORRISON. For some 50 years, Van The Man has been one of the most enigmatic heroes of the rock pantheon.

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

Album closers are just as important as album openers, so we've made a list of the best ones from 1970 for your listening enjoyment.

CD 1: Rough God Goes Riding; Fire in the Belly; This Weight; Waiting Game; Piper at the Gates of Dawn; Burning Ground; It Once Was My Life; Sometimes We Cry; If You Love Me; The Healing Game; Look ...

His next album, Avalon Sunset ... gave him his first UK Top 20 hit since the days of Them. 1990’s The Best of Van Morrison was a surprise bestseller, followed into the Top 5 that year by ...

Van Morrison had proven ... He brought that all to bear on his 1969 album Astral Weeks, which featured long, free-flowing songs and wandering melodies that pulled Morrison’s vocals around ...

Lili Zanuck worked decades to produce her biopic of blues singer Bessie Smith, and to make sure Queen Latifah got the lead role; Sony bought the rights to 33 Van Morrison albums and will make many ...

Having relocated to the San Francisco area, Morrison began recording ... local gigs while he was making the album. DOUG MESSENGER (GUITAR): By January 1972 Van and I were living together at ...