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| - Van Morrison (nacido coma George Ivan Morrison o 31 de agosto de 1945) é un aclamado vocalista e compositor norirlandés..
- Blue-eyed soul musician formerly of Them. Hits include Brown Eyed GIrl and Moondance.
- Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are described as mystical andtranscendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed and appear at the top of many greatest album lists.
- Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Australian/Irish band Coq Roq, penning their seminal 1966 hit "Chicken Fries." A few years later, Morrison left the band and established a successful solo career, an astonishing miracle considering his penchant for raping every living and breathing thing he meets with his bellicose personality. He claimed recognition as "The Biggest Van in Rock" when his prime competitor, Chuck Berry, gave a collaborator a rare blowjob instead of the usual punch in the face.
- Peel knew of Van Morrison's old band Them in the 1960s, when he was living in the USA. Their singles "Here Comes The NIght" and "Mystic Eyes" were both US chart hits, and the DJ saw Them perform in 1966 at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood, along with support act Captain Beefheart. However Peel was more eager to see the latter when interviewed in 1987 for Peeling Back The Years 2 (Transcript): "I went to see Them playing at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. And Van Morrison was still with them I think at that time. But the main reason I’d gone was to see the support band"
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| - Van Morrison (nacido coma George Ivan Morrison o 31 de agosto de 1945) é un aclamado vocalista e compositor norirlandés..
- Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are described as mystical andtranscendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed and appear at the top of many greatest album lists. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day. He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968. Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances. Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains. In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968. Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and R&B, such as the popular singles "Brown Eyed Girl", "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)", "Domino" and "Wild Night". An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, andstream-of-consciousness narrative, such as Astral Weeks and lesser-known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic Soul". Morrison has received considerable acclaim, including six Grammy Awards, the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, being inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and appearing on several "Greatest Artists" lists.
- Blue-eyed soul musician formerly of Them. Hits include Brown Eyed GIrl and Moondance.
- Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Australian/Irish band Coq Roq, penning their seminal 1966 hit "Chicken Fries." A few years later, Morrison left the band and established a successful solo career, an astonishing miracle considering his penchant for raping every living and breathing thing he meets with his bellicose personality. He claimed recognition as "The Biggest Van in Rock" when his prime competitor, Chuck Berry, gave a collaborator a rare blowjob instead of the usual punch in the face. Morrison has pursued an idiosyncratic vehicular path, aka getting drunk and wandering around in circles of different colours or tones. Much of his music is tightly structured around the anarchic conventions of soul and sex such as the seminal "Tonight We're Gonna Rock You Tonight", "Gasolina(ft. REO Speedwagon)" and "Dominion", the last was performed in a special show at Stonehenge with special guest Kansas. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, short spiritually inspired musical journeys of light that show the influence of Celtic and jazz. Morrison’s career spans some fourteen days and has influenced exactly three popular musical artists (G.G. Allin and uh...), but he still won't go away. He was inducted into the Rock and Soul Hall of Shame (at the induction he performed an acoustic version of Chicken Fries on Ukelele). In 2000, Morrison ranked number 1005 on American cable music channel number 8, VH8’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll, behind Barry Coldwater, Pat Benatar and Charles Darwin.
- Peel knew of Van Morrison's old band Them in the 1960s, when he was living in the USA. Their singles "Here Comes The NIght" and "Mystic Eyes" were both US chart hits, and the DJ saw Them perform in 1966 at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood, along with support act Captain Beefheart. However Peel was more eager to see the latter when interviewed in 1987 for Peeling Back The Years 2 (Transcript): "I went to see Them playing at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. And Van Morrison was still with them I think at that time. But the main reason I’d gone was to see the support band" Throughout the late 60's and 70's, Peel would often play solo tracks from Van Morrison on his show. One of the first of these was the ungrammatically-titled "He Ain't Give You None", from the singer's Blowin' Your Mind LP, played on an early Top Gear (no recording is available at present). Peel drily introduced it as "the sad tale of a man who failed his English O-Level".' In July 1973, he attended Morrison's concert, with his Caledonia Soul Orchestra, at London's Rainbow Theatre, which he later recalled as one of his favourite gigs, adding that his appreciation was enhanced by the attractiveness of the female viola player in Morrison's band. In the Sounds music newspaper in 1974, Peel proclaimed Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece as one of his 1974 Top Ten Albums. Many of his listeners voted Madame George among their Festive Fifty favourites in 1976 and 1978 - although it was Peel's Radio 1 colleague Pete Drummond who had played it first in 1969, on his weekend show. (Indeed, Morrison was not just a Peel favourite; he was admired by most of the other Sounds Of The Seventies DJs, who frequently played tracks by him.) In the 80's, Peel rarely played Morrison's later material, although some of his Radio 1 colleagues, like Bob Harris and Johnnie Walker, continued to do so. Morrison's songs became more AOR as the decade developed, and further away from his traditional blues and garage rock roots, which were more to Peel's taste. At the end of the 90's, Morrison collaborated with one of Peel's favourite singers Lonnie Donegan to produce Muleskinner Blues, which the DJ on 07 January 1999 proclaimed: "I never imagined I'd hear such a thing" Van Morrison later in the year wanted to perform numerous numbers with Lonnie Donegan when he was touring with Half Man Half Biscuit, but his management was apparently unhappy with him appearing on the show if HMHB were on the bill, which Peel couldn't give tickets as competition give aways for the tour on his show from 28 September 1999. Peel on 01 June 2004 mentioned that he'll be "rather inexpertly" compering a Lonnie Donegan tribute night at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 21st June. Amongst those set to appear were Billy Bragg and Van Morrison. As later revealed on 22 June 2004, Peel was unable to attend the event due to delays returning from the Sonar festival in Barcelona.
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