Tag Archives: Van Morrison

DON McLEAN JOINS ED SHEERAN, ROGER DALTREY, VAN MORRISON, JOHN FOGERTY AND MORE FOR CHARITY FUNDRAISER; PERFORMS HIS CLASSIC ‘VINCENT’ WITH SHEERAN

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – Legendary American singer, songwriter and performer Don McLean recently helped raise funds for Teen Cancer America (TCA) and UCLA Health. At the Backyard Concert 2018, McLean joined Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Van Morrison and Roger Daltrey, as well as GRAMMY Award winner Ed Sheeran and others for a once-in-a-generation …

Van Morrison – Transformation

After 72 years, Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison is still wandering through buttercup summers and playing new games down in the hollow. “Transformation,” (above) a song from his upcoming album, his 37th, forms his latest summer into fall meditation. It’s gold baby, this “Transformation,” and it comes to us just as northern hemisphere leaves turn …

Van Morrison – I Can’t Stop Loving You – Crazy Love (with Ray Charles) By Ron Swanson

I don’t know that I’ve heard this version before, but it is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=p4OxQ7960nY I’ve loved Van’s reading of it since Hymns to the Silence, but this is nice. Never had heard this either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCAZRKXaQk I am becoming more and more a fan of Youtube. It pretty much replaces my worn out turntable and …

Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks

Thanks to Pat Thomas for rediscovering this Lester Bangs quote about Van Morrison‘s legendary 1968 album, Astral Weeks. “What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, …