“Rock’n’roll is about simplicity, sincerity and expressive power and there’s no way you can get away from that,” Van Morrison says about his new album of old classics. “That’s why it’s good and that’s ...

Like Northern Ireland, Van Morrison exists with multiple identities. He rose to prominence fronting an R&B group called Them, best known for the garage rock standard, “Gloria.” Morrison wasn’t ...

According to Clinton Heylin's 2003 Morrison biography, Can You Feel the Silence?, the young musician penned "Gloria" during the summer of 1963, when he was performing with the Monarchs in Germany. But ...

There is no musician alive quite like Van Morrison. The 79-year-old is almost a folkloric figure at this point, a curmudgeon of such bizarre and specific idiosyncrasies that nearly everyone in music ...

Music has been a foundation of Shana Morrison’s life since she was a little girl, and not only because her father, Van, is a globally renowned musician. Her mother, Janet Minto, was in a “backup ...

It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Van Morrison's love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store ...