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Van Morrison, OBE, rodným jménem George Ivan Morrison, je britský zpěvák, písničkář, básník a multiinstrumentalista, nositel Řádu britského impéria a držitel hudební ceny Grammy.

Patří k nejvýznamnějším představitelům populární hudby v její dosavadní historii. Vyniká suverénním hlasovým projevem a je také uznávaným skladatelem a mnohostranným hudebníkem . Jeho osobitý hudební výraz vyrůstá z kořenů rhythm and blues a keltské hudby, který je dále obohacen o vlivy rocku, folku, soulu, jazzu i country. Je pro něj příznačné střídání rozmanitých stylů a jejich míšení. V anglofonní oblasti se ujala jeho přezdívka „Van the Man“ .

K jeho nejúspěšnějším písním patří „Gloria“, kterou nazpíval se skupinou Them a kterou později převzala Patti Smithová . K jeho dalším písňovým úspěchům z jeho následné sólové dráhy patří Brown Eyed Girl, v 70. letech pak Moondance, Domino, Wild Night a další. Natočil na 35 alb, z nichž zvláště legendární Astral Weeks a komerčně úspěšné Moondance se řadí k základním albům rockové historie a v autoritativních anketách hudebních kritiků celého světa se trvale objevují na nejpřednějších příčkách .

V jeho dosavadní tvorbě lze pozorovat střetávání i propojování několika určujících poloh: folk-rockové, především na albech Astral Weeks a Veedon Fleece , soul-rockové s prvky blues, zvláště Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir , přičemž určitou syntézu obou uvedených poloh představuje album Saint Dominic's Preview . Country se objevuje na albech Tupelo Honey , Into the Music a zejména Pay the Devil . K jeho umělecky nejpřesvědčivějším výkonům na poli jazzové inspirace patří album What's Wrong with This Picture? .

V roce 1993 se stal členem Rock'n'rollové síně slávy a v roce 2003 vstoupil do Síně slávy písničkářů . Je populární ve Velké Británii, v rodném Irsku nebo ve Spojených státech amerických. Svojí tvorbou ovlivnil řadu dalších tvůrců . Wikipedia  

✵ 31. srpen 1945
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Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 41, 80-7207-016-9]

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Van Morrison: Citáty anglicky

“People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.”

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An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

“You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry.”

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Tupelo Honey
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)

“There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.”

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An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

“To Santa Fe
Do you need it?
Can you feel it in the same old way?
I can feel it from the mountain top
Runnin' down to the foamy brine
In a rest'rant 'cross a table top
Looking into a glass of wine
Whispering in the evening breeze
Green leaves glist'ning eucalyptus trees
Can you hear them?
Or get near them?”

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Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)

“In the land of a thousand dances,
I dance with you.
I was out I was taking my chances
When dreams came true
When you came into my dream
Like from a whisper to a scream.”

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Heavy Connection
Song lyrics, A Period of Transition (1977)

“Oh redwood tree,
Please let us under,
When we were young we used to go,
Under the redwood tree,
And it smelled like rain,
Maybe even thunder,
Won't you keep us from all harm,
Wonderful redwood tree.”

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Redwood Tree
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

“Your street, rich street or poor
Used to always be sure, on your street
There's a place in your heart you know from the start
Can't be complete outside of the street
Keep moving on through the joy and the pain
Sometimes you got to look back
To the street again
Would you prefer all those castles in Spain?
Or the view of your street from your window pane?”

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The Street Only Knew Your Name
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)

“Whatever it takes to fulfill his mission
That is the way we must go
But you've got to do it your own way
Tear down the old, bring up the new.”

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When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God?
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

“By the winding stream we shall lie and dream
We'll make dreams come true if we want them to
Yes all will come play the pipes and drum
Sing a happy song and we'll sing along.”

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Everyone
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

“I'm in heaven, I'm in heaven
I'm in heaven when you smile, when you smile.”

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Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

“And all the girls walk by
Dressed up for each other
And the boys do the boogie-woogie
On the corner of the street
And the people passin' by
Just stare in wild wonder
And the inside juke-box
Roars out just like thunder.”

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Wild Night
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)

“There's a dream where the contents are visible
Where the poetic champions compose
Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and
Will you still be my special rose?”

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Queen of the Slipstream
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

“And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George”

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Madame George
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

“Turn up your radio and let me hear the song
Switch on your electric light
Then we can get down to what is really wrong
I long to hold you tight so I can feel you
Sweet lady of the night I shall reveal you.”

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Caravan
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

“From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We’ll be lovers once again on the
Bright side of the road”

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Bright Side of the Road
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)

“The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere….”

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As quoted in Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003) by Clinton Heylin

“I can hear her heart beat from a thousand miles
And the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song.”

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Crazy Love
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

“Enlightenment says the world is nothing
Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion
And nothing is real.”

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Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

“I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind.
Heartache after heartache, worried all the time.
I forgot that love existed
Then I saw the light
Everyone around me make everything alright.”

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I Forgot That Love Existed
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

“And this time I forget to slip into your slumber
The light is on the left side of your head
And I'm standing in your doorway
And I'm mumbling and I can't remember the last thing that ran through my head”

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Ballerina
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

“I have seen without perceiving
I have been another man
Let me pierce the realm of glamour
So I know just what I am.”

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Dweller on the Threshold.
Song lyrics, Beautiful Vision (1982)

“Oh won't you stay
Stay a while with your own ones
Don't ever stray
Stray so far from your own ones
'Cause the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
That you share with your own ones.”

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Irish Heartbeat
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)

“Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can't stand up alone
Oh baby that is why.I'm real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know I need your help
You're a friend of mine
And I'm real real gone.”

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Real Real Gone
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

“Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page.”

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Rave On, John Donne
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)

“Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.”

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"Nights in Copenhagen with Van Morrison" (1985) interview by Al Jones

“Showed me pictures in the gallery
Showed me novels on the shelf
Put my hands across the table
Gave me knowledge of myself.
Showed me visions, showed me nightmares
Gave me dreams that never end
Showed me light out of the tunnel
When there was darkness all around instead.”

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Tore Down a la Rimbaud.
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)

“You know what they're writing about
Baby you know what they're writing about
It's a thing called love down through the ages
Makes you wanna cry sometimes
Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes
Makes you high sometimes
But when you really get in it lifts you right up.”

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You Know What They're Writing About
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)

“I was lost and double crossed,
With my hands behind my back.
I was longtime hurt and thrown in the dirt,
Shoved out on the railroad track.
I've been used, abused and so confused,
And I had nowhere to run.
But I stood and looked,
And my eyes got hooked
On that beautiful morning sun.”

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Brand New Day
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

“Well it's a marvellous night for a moondance,
With the stars up above in your eyes.
A fantabulous night to make romance,
'Neath the cover of October skies.”

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Moondance
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)