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Van Morrison

Folk / IndieRockR&B / SoulClassic RockHall of Fame 1993

Van Morrison grew up in Belfast and started out with the band Them, singing "Gloria," before launching his solo career with Blowin' Your Mind! in 1967, followed by the improvisational, jazz-leaning Astral Weeks in 1968. He built his own blend of soul, R&B, folk, and rock, carried by a voice that can turn a single line into a sermon. "Brown Eyed Girl," "Moondance," "Domino," and "Wild Night" are just the songs everyone knows; the records around them run deep.

Start here

Moondance (1970). It's his most welcoming record, warm and swinging, with the title track, "Into the Mystic," "Caravan," and "Crazy Love" all on one side of his catalogue.

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Biography

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally, including in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.

He has scored top ten albums in the UK in four consecutive decades, following the success of 2021's Latest Record Project, Volume 1. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released – on average – more than an album a year. His accolades include two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, and inductions into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016 he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.

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Studio albums

Blowin’ Your Mind! 1967Astral Weeks 1968Moondance 1970His Band and the Street Choir 1970Tupelo Honey 1971Saint Dominic’s Preview 1972Hard Nose the Highway 1973Veedon Fleece 1974A Period of Transition 1977Wavelength 1978Into the Music 1979Common One 1980Beautiful Vision 1982Inarticulate Speech of the Heart 1983A Sense of Wonder 1985No Guru, No Method, No Teacher 1986Poetic Champions Compose 1987Irish Heartbeat 1988Avalon Sunset 1989Enlightenment 1990Hymns to the Silence 1991Too Long in Exile 1993Days Like This 1995Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison 1996The Healing Game 1997Back on Top 1999You Win Again 2000Down the Road 2002What’s Wrong With This Picture? 2003Magic Time 2005Pay the Devil 2006Keep It Simple 2008Born to Sing: No Plan B 2012Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue 2015Keep Me Singing 2016Roll With the Punches 2017Versatile 2017You’re Driving Me Crazy 2018The Prophet Speaks 2018Three Chords & the Truth 2019Latest Record Project, Volume 1 2021What’s It Gonna Take? 2022Moving on Skiffle 2023Accentuate the Positive 2023New Arrangements and Duets 2024Remembering Now 2025Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge 2026

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