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Van Morrison: The Belfast Boy Behind the Mystic
He is rock’s great enigma — the “Belfast Cowboy” who turned mysticism into a chart career, the singer who can sound like an angel and act like a thundercloud, often in the same evening. Journalists have spent sixty years trying to decode Van Morrison, usually by asking about the music. But the answers were always…
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How Van Morrison Created “It’s Too Late to Stop Now”: The Story Behind the Legendary Live Album
In the summer of 1973, Van Morrison took an eleven-piece band — complete with a horn section and a string quartet — on a tour of America and Britain, and recorded nearly every night. What emerged, released on February 1, 1974, was “It’s Too Late to Stop Now,” a double live album that many critics…
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The Untold Story of Van Morrison: The Belfast Poet Who Refused to Be a Pop Star
Some artists chase fame. Van Morrison never did — he ran from it, in fact, and somehow became one of the most beloved singers of the last sixty years anyway. Born George Ivan Morrison on August 31, 1945, in Bloomfield, a working-class corner of Belfast, Northern Ireland, he grew up in a house where American…