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In the early musical roots and the life: 194564George Ivan (Van) Morrison was born August 31, 1945 in Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard worker and Violet Stitt Morrison, singer and tap dancer in his youth. Roots of Van Morrison family to the increase of the Ulster Scots population moved to Belfast. From 1950 to 1956, Morrison, known as “Van”, during this period began, attended Elmgrove primary school. Father Morrison had what was then one of the largest collection of record in Ulster (acquired during his stay in Detroit, Michigan in 1950) grew up, and the young Morrison with such artists as Jelly Roll Morton , Ray Charles, Lead Belly and Solomon Burke, Morrison said later: “If it were not for people like Ray and Solomon, I’m not where I am today These guys have been the inspiration that made me go, if not .. for this kind of music I could not do what I do now. “Explained his father’s record collection like in different musical genres like the blues of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson’s gospel, jazz by Charlie Parker, Woody Guthrie folk music and country music of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, while that the first record he ever bought was by blues musicians Sonny Terry. When Lonnie Donegan had a hit with “Rock Line Iceland,” written by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly), Morrison said he was familiar and connect them to a position of skiffle music related, as you just heard, belly before Blei.Morrisons’s father bought him his first guitar when he was eleven, and he learned rudimentary arrangements of the book singing, game of the Carter family style, edited by Alan Lomax. A year later, when he was twelve years, Morrison began his first band, a skiffle group, The “Sputnik, named after the Soviet satellite has recently launched the first satellite Sputnik in 1958, the band played some of the local cinemas, and Morrison took the initiative and with the most votes and understanding. Other groups of short duration, followed by fourteen he formed Midnight Special, plus a modified skiffle band, playing in a school concert. Then, when he heard Jimmy Giuffre saxophone on “The train and the river, he said, his father bought him a saxophone, and took lessons in tenor saxophone and playing music. Now, playing the saxophone Morrison joined several local groups, including one called Deanie Sands and played the spears with which he sings and guitar together. Later, the four most important musicians of the lance, with the addition of Wesley black keyboards, was known as Könige.Morrison attended Orangefield High School, so that by July 1960 without a degree. As a community member of the working class to expect that was he got a regular job full time, so that after several short apprenticeship, he moved to a position of window cleaner mentioned later in his song “Cleaning Windows” and “St. Preview Dominique. “However, he developed his musical tastes at a young age and continued with the Monarchs to play part time. Young Morrison also played with the Harry Mack Showband, the Great Eight, with his friend over workplace Geordie Sproule, who later as one of the biggest influences genannt.Im age of 17, he toured Europe for the first time with the monarch even now called the Kings International. The Irish Show Band plays with Morrison saxophone, guitar and harp, plus back-up service on bass and drums, touring clubs and torrid U.S. military bases in Scotland, England and Germany, often in five sets per night . In Germany, the band recorded the single “Boozoo Hully Gully” / “Baby Twingy” under the name of George and kings. This first recording was Morrison, Ariola Studios in November 1963 in Cologne, with Morrison on saxophone, he has the lower German Charts.Nach his return to Belfast in November 1963, the group, Morrison with Geordie Sproule again and played with it connected in the Manhattan Showband with guitarist Herbie Armstrong. As Armstrong to contact Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles play auditioned, went together and Morrison was hired as a blues singer. Them: 196466Hauptartikel: Them (band) The roots of them, the group that broke Morrison on the international scene came in April 1964, Morrison answered an ad for musicians on a new R & B Club at the Hotel Maritim is a former dance hall frequented by sailors play. The new R & B club needed a band for her debut, but Morrison had left the Golden Eagles (the group he was at the time of implementation), so he formed a new group of players, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison and Alan Henderson in 1962. Eric Wrixon, still a school boy was the player piano and keyboard. Morrison has played the saxophone and harmonica and singing with Billy Harrison. They followed the proposal for Eric Wrixon a new name, and the players changed into them, their names from the fifty horror movies they’ve done!. The strong band R & B performance in the attention drawn to sea. They improvised performed without ad routine and Morrison, including his songs live, as he played. While the group did covers, they played some songs from the early Morrison as “Could you”, which in Camden Town, was written on tour The Manhattan Showband. The beginnings of Morrison “Gloria” was on stage. Sometimes, depending on his mood, the song was up to twenty minutes. Morrison said that “lived and died on stage at the Hotel Maritim,” believe that the group fails, the spontaneity and energy of their live performances to their recordings erfassen.Dick Rowe of Decca Records was aware of the band performances, and she signed a standard contract for two years. During this period they released two albums and singles ten, two more singles released after Morrison left the group. They had three hits table “Baby, Please Do not Go” (1964), “Here Comes the Night” (1965) and “Mystic Eyes” (1965), while the B side of “Baby, Please Don ‘t Go “, the classic garage band” was Gloria, “which went on a standard rock Patti Smith, The Doors, Shadows of Knight, Jimi Hendrix and others are covered.” Gloria “Morrison classic garage-rock recorded the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. As described by Paul Williams: Problems “.. the voice of Van Morrison, a fierce light in the darkness, the lighthouse at the end of the world is one of the greatest rock anthems of perfect humanity known are” the listen to this file? See media helfen.Aufbauend on the success of their singles in the U.S., and riding on the backs of the British Invasion, she began a two-month tour of America in May and June 1966, a residence three weeks at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles included. Doors were the opening act last week, and the influence on Morrison The Doors singer Jim Morrison was noticed by John Densmore in his book Riders On The Storm, “Jim Morrison learned quickly from the set scene near its namesake, his apparent recklessness, his face covered with threat as he improvises poetry on a rock beat, even his habit of crouching on the bass drum instrumental breaks. “Last night the two Morrisons and the two bands together on “Gloria gestaut.Gegen end” of the Tower of the band in a dispute with his manager, Phil Solomon Decca Records, revenues paid by the group was involved in this at the end of their working visas is linked meant the band America down. After two more concerts in Ireland split. Morrison has focused on a letter of songs that appear on Astral Weeks, while the rest of the band in 1967, reformed and moved to America. beginning of his solo career with the label Bang, and “Brown Eyed Girl” 1967 “Brown Eyed Girl Morrison classic 1967 hit that appeared on the album ‘Your Mind Blowin!. In 2007, she was in the Grammy Hall of Fame aufgenommen.Probleme listen to this file? See media helfen.Bert Berns, producer and composer of 1965′s Them hit “Here Comes the Night” convinced Morrison returned to New York for the solo for his new label, Bang Records record. Morrison flew over and signed a contract, he had not studied thoroughly. Then, during a recording session for two days at A & R used originally recorded Studios at 28 March 1967, eight songs on four singles. Instead, these songs that the album ‘Your Mind Blowin Released! accessed without Morrison. He said he was not known before the release of the album when a friend mentioned a call he had bought only one copy of it. He then commented on Donal Corvin 1973 interview. “I was not really happy with him, he took the bands and songs that I had a different concept of it ..” But from the first sessions were to wear “Brown Eyed Girl.” 22 trapped on the first day, was this song as a single mid-June, published in 1967, reaching number ten in the U.S. charts in 1967. “Brown Eyed Girl Morrison has been the most played song over the years it has remained a classic, forty years later in 2007, he was the fourth song most requested DJs in the death USA.Nach Berne 1967, Morrison was involved in a contract dispute with the widow of Berns, who prevented him from stage or recording in the New York area. The song “Big Time Operator”, published in 1993, is thought to allude to its dealings with the New York music business during this period. Then he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and was soon confronted with problems personal and financial that he had “slipped into a malaise and difficulty in finding bookings. But through the few gigs he could find, he has won more professional and began his recording with Warner Bros. Records. The record company managed to buy his contract with the label Bang. Morrison meets a clause to submit a recording of songs in years thirty-six thirty-one related pieces of a session, however, thought the songs Eileen Berns “music nonsense verse ring …” and use would not 1968Hauptartikel Weeks Astral Weeks .. Astral Weeks Astral is the power of the human voice ecstatic agony, ecstasy agony Here is an Irish tenor reborn as a negro white a white male Soul to plead and argue a bed of folk-jazz instrumentation dream: acoustic bass , battery, brushed mood and acoustic guitar, string quartet and flute odd way. “Barney Hoskyns MojoEin blend of folk, jazz, and a stream of consciousness, but ultimately a genre in itself, Astral Weeks (1968) is often one of the best albums of all time as betrachtet.Astral WeeksDer 1968 the song with the opening lines of the album: was: “If I allowed myself in the wake between the viaducts of your dream.” His voice was as early flint and tender, pleading and wailing “beschrieben.Probleme listen to this file? See media helfen.Sein first album for Warner Bros. Records Astral Weeks (he has already performed in various clubs in Boston), a mystical song cycle, often as his best work Morrison said. “If Astral Weeks came out, I literally starving.” Published in 1968, finally reached the critically acclaimed album but it has received initial reaction indifferent public. To date, it remains in an unclassifiable musical style has been compared and described as hypnotic, meditative and described as holding a unique musical force. He is French Impressionism and mystical Celtic poetry. A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine article begins with the words: “. It is music to the mysterious beauty that challenges 35 years after its release, Astral Weeks still a simple description and admire Alan later described Astral Light Weeks, “as he had done nothing really previouslynd not someone done this before. Morrison sings about love, death and nostalgia for lost childhood in the Celtic soul who would become his signature. “He has on many lists of best albums of all time. In the list of 1995 Mojo Top 100 albums, it was considered the number two nineteen number available and was on the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of all time in 2003. In December 2009, he was the best Irish album of all time by a survey of the best Irish musicians Hot Press magazine in question. From the Moon Dance Music: Album 197079Morrison solo third, Moon Dance, which was published in 1970, became his first million selling album, reaching number 29 on the Billboard charts, the style of the Moondance was unlike that of course was Astral Weeks Astral Weeks sad and vulnerable restored your message .. Moondance more optimistic and joyful music. The title song, but not published in the United States as a single until 1977, received heavy play in the formats of FM radio. “Into the Mystic “has also won large following over the years. released the single” Come Running “, the peak U.S. 40th Moondance was both well received and appreciated. Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus has a comprehensive review of the page combined in Rolling Stone, stating that Morrison now had “the striking imagination of a consciousness that is visionary in the strict sense of the word. “It was the kind of band that I dig,” Morrison said of the Moondance sessions. “Two horns and a rhythm section for the kind of bands I like best.” He produced the album himself, as he felt like no one else knew what he wanted. Moondance was the number of sixty-five on Rolling Stone magazine listed the 500 greatest albums of all time. In March 2007, Moondance that the number seventy-two on the NARM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list “final 200″ aufgeführt.In the coming years, he published a series of albums, starting with a second by 1970. His Band and Choir, free street, relaxed sound like Moondance, but could not perfection, in the opinion of the critic Jon Landau, who, as “a few more numbers would have a weight of” Street Choir “album felt as perfect as everyone stood up. ” It contains the hit “Domino” on number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 kartiert.Im 1971 he published another well received album Tupelo Honey. This album produced the single “Wild Night”, which was later covered by John Mellencamp. The title song is to learn all the albums and country soul with another piece of country, “Moonshine Whiskey” finished felt. Morrison said he originally to do an album every country. The recordings have been like living as possible to repeat the songs of musicians go into the studio and take in a game would be much. “Is this the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. His number one all by himself, he said immediately, without overdubs.” His co-producer Ted Templeman describes this record as published in 1972, out of St. Dominic Preview Morrison showed the accessible style his last three albums and moving back towards the more daring aspects, adventurous, meditative and Astral Weeks. The combination of the two types of music showed a versatility not found in his earlier albums. Two songs (“Jackie Wilson Said I’m (in Heaven When You Smile)” and “Redwood Tree”) reached the Hot 100 singles chart. The songs “to listen to the lions” and “Almost Independence Day” are long over ten minutes each and employ the kind of poetic images not as Astral Weeks too. It was her highest album charts in the United States until his Top Ten debut on the Billboard 200 in 2008.Er released his next album received mixed Hard Nose the Highway in 1973, but mostly negative comments. The album contains the popular song “Warm Love” but rejected largely critical. In 1973 a study was Rolling Stone described as follows:. “Psychologically complex, something uneven musically and lyrically excellent” On a trip three weeks vacation in Ireland in October 1973, Morrison wrote seven songs together for his next album, Lights. Although it has attracted little initial attention, his stature has become very critical now often used as a works the most impressive and poetic Morrison Enlightenment yearsith. To check in a Rolling Stone 2008, writes Andy Greene, when published late in 1974: “It was a collective shrug of the shoulders hosted by the rock critic establishment “and concludes:” It is wonderful to many albums released since, but he never again hit the majestic heights it. “” You do not pull any punches, but you do not push the river, “an album of the farm-side door, an example of the long, hypnotic, cryptic references to Morrison in his visionary poet William Blake and the Grail seem like Veedon Fleece Objekt.Morrison not release the album followed for three more years. After a decade without time, “he said in an interview that he needed to get away from music completely stopped listening for several months. also suffers from writer’s block because he seriously considered leaving the music world well. Speculation that an extended jam session would be published as Mechanical Bliss, or naked in the jungle, or Stiff Upper Lip came to nothing, and Morrison’s next album was a transition period in 1977 a collaboration with the Dr. John was in The Last Waltz with Morrison released in 1976. The album received mixed critical marks the beginning of a very fruitful period of song making. “Wavelength” Morrison sings in falsetto, imitating the front lines and synthesizer sounds of the station shortwave radio he heard a Junge.Probleme listen to this file? See media helfen.Into music: “The album has four songs,” Angelou “,” and the healing has begun “and” It’s All in the game / You know what she wrote about “a tour de force Morrison convened with all the tricks at his disposal to vote “culmination Angelou shouts to the sexually oriented, half-mumbled monologue” and the healing has begun, “the low barely audible as the album is the final sound.” (Scott Thomas review) In the following year, Morrison wavelength, it was then the biggest selling album of his career, and soon went gold. The title song became a hit modest, reaching number two and forty. The use of the synthesizer mimics 1970, he heard the sounds of shortwave radio that in his youth. The opening “Kingdom Hall” has his own childhood experiences Morrison of people attending Mass with his mother and predicted a religious theme, it would be clearer in his next album by Allmusic Musik.Als as “definitive post-classical Morrison “in music last year has been since the 1970s with songs on this album that are recurring themes over refers was published.” religious redemption, Celtic myths and the redemptive power of music “” Bright Side of the Road “a joyous song uplifting, which appear on the soundtrack of the movie, Michael. Common One Avalon Sunset: 198089Mit his next album, found the new decade Morrison after his muse into uncharted territory and ruthless comments. In February 1980, Morrison and a group of musicians went to Super Bear, a studio in the back of the French Alps (on the site of a former abbey), which was authorized as the most controversial album of his discography, more later, “Morrison that his original concept even more esoteric than the final product.” The album, Common One, consisting of six songs, each of varying length. The longest, “Summertime in England” took fifteen minutes and a half and ended with the words: “Can you feel the silence.” Magazine NME, Paul Du Noyer called the album “colossally smug and dull cosmic A stab endless, empty and desolate selfish spirituality. Into the Muzak “Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had positively inclined towards Morrison said:” It’s part of acting Van mystic poet, he thinks that it should be. “Morrison insisted that the album was never” supposed to be a commercial album “biographer Clinton Heylin concludes:”. It would not attempt anything so ambitious again from now on, any radical idea would be tempered by a concept of commerciality .. “Later criticism of the album to review favorable to the success of” Summertime in England. “Lester Bangs wrote in 1982,” Van made sacred music, but he believed, and we [sic] rock critic had to pay our standard errors much attention to the text. “Morrison released new album, Beautiful Vision, in 1982, he received one more time to the music of his Northern Irish roots. Now, critics and the public, it creates a small UK single,” Cleaning Windows “which one of the first jobs after leaving school Morrison made several other songs on the album, “Stairway Vanlose” and “She gives me religion” instrumental, “Scandinavia” show the existence of a new muse his personal life.: Danish PR agent that Morrison would like to share intellectual interests and to serve as a stabilizing influence on him in most of the 1980s. “Scandinavia,” with Morrison on piano, was in the “Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the 25th Annual Grammy Awards nominiert.Ein most of the music Morrison released in 1980 on the themes of spirituality and faith to concentrate. His album 1983, inarticulate speech of the heart was “a step towards the creation of music for meditation” with synth, uilleann pipes and flutes, and four of the songs are instrumentals. The titles of the album and the presence of the instrumentals were recorded as indicative of the longstanding belief of Morrison, that “it is not the words, but uses the strength of conviction behind the words that counts.” Meanwhile, Morrison had studied Scientology and gave “special thanks” L. Ron Hubbard on the Sense of Wonder Credits.A album, Morrison album in 1985, brought together spiritual themes in his last four albums that defined a magazine Rolling Stone were listed as: “Rebirth (Into the Music) contemplation and meditation (Common One), ecstasy and humility (Beautiful Vision), and the happiness that fatigue Mantra (inarticulate speech of the Heart). “The single” Tore Down a Rimbaud’s “was a reference to Rimbaud and a previous episode of Writer’s Block, that Morrison had met in 1974. In 1985, Morrison also wrote the soundtrack to the film, lamb with Liam Neeson.Morrison press release No. 1986 Guru, no method, none of the teachers said that holiness mentioned a “real … and fresh music that is placed in the context should be. “Critical reaction was positive at a referee call Sounds of the most striking part of the album since Astral Weeks” and “Morrison mystical, magical best.” It contains the song “In the Garden” which, after Morrison had a “process of meditation that includes a defined” is transcendental meditation as its base. It is not TM “form. He entitled the album as a refutation of the press has tried to place them in different beliefs. In an interview in the Observer, he said Denselow Anthony: There are many lies have was found on me and it’s finally my position. I’ve never joined an organization or plan. I’m not a guru not related to the proceedings and for those who do not know what a guru I am not a teacher or abonnieren.Nach appeared out of the “No Guru” album, the music Morrison less granular and more Adult Contemporary with the well received 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose, considered one of the points highlights of his recording of the 1980s. The romantic ballad from the album, “Someone Like You,” was then published in the soundtracks of several films, including 1995 French Kiss, and 2001, two Someone Like You and Bridget Jones’s Diary . im 1988, he released Irish Heartbeat, a collection of traditional Irish folk songs with Irish band The Chieftains, which reached number 18 inscribed in the UK charts. The title song, “Irish Heartbeat”, was originally on his album Inarticulate Speech of the Heart 1983 aufgezeichnet.Der 1989 album Avalon Sunset, which the duo hit with Cliff Richard, “If God seems to be light,” including the ballad “Have I told You Lately” (the “earthly love is for God.” (Hinton), reached 13 on the charts in the United Kingdom. Although a deeply spiritual album, it also contained ” Daring Night “,” deals with full, chubby sex, whatever it is proposed church organ and soft tone. “(Hinton) Morrison familiar themes,” God, the woman, her childhood in Belfast and magical moments where time stands still ‘in the songs were produced. It is to hear the tempo change called for the end of this song, repeating the numbers “1 4″. It refers to changes in the rope music, will listen (the first chord and the fourth chord in the key of the music). He often completed albums in two days with the first is often the norm The Best of Van Morrison Back to the top of Home. 199099Die early to mid 1990s were a commercial success for Morrison, with three albums reach the top five in the UK charts, sold concerts and a visible public profile, but this period also marked a decline of the critical reception of his work. The decade began with the release of The Best of Van Morrison, compiled by Morrison himself, the album has been focused on his singles, and was a multi-platinum success for a year and a half the UK charts. Allmusic identified as “by far the best selling album of his career.” After enlightenment, which included the single, “Real Gone”, a another album compilation “The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two is released in January 1993, Too Long in Exile in June, another record followed five successful on the charts. In 1994, double live album A Night in San Francisco has received critical acclaim and commercial success reached number eight in the UK charts . 1995′s Days Like This achieved significant sales were despite the criticisms are not always favorable. This period has also been a number of side effects, including the performance “of jazz in 1996, as long as it was Going We, in the same year, added Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison and 2000 Skiffle Sessions – Live In Belfast 1998, all have found Morrison tribute to his early music Einflüssen.Im 1997, Morrison out of the game The healing ‘. the album has received mixed reviews, with the song as “tired” and “boring” describes, although critics Greil Marcus, the musical complexity of the album praised by saying: “It is the listener in a musical house as perfect and complete or it may have forgotten such a thing existed. “The following year he published some of his unreleased studio recordings in a two-disc set, the philosopher’s stone. His next release, 1999′s Back up, achieved a modest success, the album’s highest mapping the United States since 1978, the wavelength of recent years. 2000Van side catch Morrison and continue his tour in the 2000s, often takes two or three times a week, he founded his own independent label, Exile Productions Ltd, for him. control the entire production of each album he records, he then delivers a finished product, the home of records he wants, for marketing and distribution maintain können.Das album, Down the Road, published in May 2002, has received good critical acclaim and proved to be his highest album charts in the U.S. since 1972, Extract of St. Dominic’s. It was a nostalgic tone, with its fifteen tracks, with different types of music that Morrison had already coveredncluding R & B, blues, country and folk, one of the title was written as