Van Morrison (George Ivan Morrison, OBE, born 31 August 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter with a reputation for being at once curmudgeonly, idiosyncratic, and sublime.Collis (1996), page 185. His live performances at their best are seen as [LINK: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revelatory] revelatory and inspired;Van Morrison: inarticulate speech of the heart, John Collis, Da Capo Press, 1997, ISBN 0306808110 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 acclaimed as among the greatest ever made. Known as "Van the Man" by his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a young teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboa

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