The Philosopher's Stone: the Unreleased Tapes

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Marcus, Greil & Bangs, Lester (17 March 1970). "Moondance:Van Morrison". Superseventies.com . Retrieved 29 April 2010. Furness, Hannah (4 February 2016). "Newly-knighted Van Morrison promises Prince Charles he won't be retiring". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 February 2016. Recorded in 1971 at Colombia Recording, San Francisco, California. Mixed in 1996 at The Wool Hall, Bath.

a b c d e f g h " Canada certified Awards Search". Retrieved on 2 December 2020. Note: User needs to enter "Van Morrison" in the "Searchable Database" field and press Enter. Van and Jordan honoured by France". The Irish Independent. 1 July 1998 . Retrieved 25 January 2009. Unlike A Period of Transition, this is a good Van Morrison record, as up as any he's ever made, but it's certainly not a great one. You might pay attention to side two, an evocative reinterpretation of Van's America fixation, but side one is nothing more (and nothing less) than class programming. B+ Gunnaike, Lola O. (14 June 2003). "Songwriting hitmakers donning their laurels". The New York Times . Retrieved 1 July 2008. Murray, Charles (18 March 2002). Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-27006-3 . Retrieved 8 July 2011.Legaspi, Althea (2 October 2018). "Van Morrison Details New Album 'The Prophet Speaks' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 8 December 2018. Van Morrison: Thousands attend concerts on Belfast's Cyprus Avenue". Bbc.co.uk. 31 August 2015 . Retrieved 2 September 2015. In 2014, Morrison's former high school Orangefield High School, formerly known as Orangefield Boys' Secondary School closed its doors permanently. To mark the school's closure Morrison performed in the school assembly hall for three nights of concerts from 22 to 24 August. The performance on 22 August was exclusively for former teachers and pupils and the two remaining concerts were for members of the public [278] The first night of the Nocturne Live [279] concerts at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK on 25 June 2015, featured Morrison and Grammy Award-winning American Jazz vocalist and songwriter Gregory Porter.

The album is described by AllMusic's William Ruhlmann as hypnotic, meditative, and as possessing a unique musical power. [93] It has been compared to French Impressionism and mystical Celtic poetry. [96] [97] [98] A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: "This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after its release, Astral Weeks still defies easy, admiring description." [99] Alan Light later described Astral Weeks as "like nothing he had done previously—and really, nothing anyone had done previously. Morrison sings of lost love, death, and nostalgia for childhood in the Celtic soul that would become his signature." [9] It has been placed on many lists of best albums of all time. In the 1995 Mojo list of 100 Best Albums, it was listed as number two and was number nineteen on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. [100] [101] In December 2009, it was voted the top Irish album of all time by a poll of leading Irish musicians conducted by Hot Press magazine. [102] [103] Moondance to Into the Music: 1970–1979 [ edit ] Morrison in 1972Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball" peaked at number 19 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. [50] Lester Bangs. "Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks". Personal.cis.strath.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009 . Retrieved 8 February 2009. Netherlands certified Awards Search". Retrieved on 2 December 2020. Note: User needs to enter "Van Morrison" in the "Artiest of titel" field and press Enter. Adams, David (28 February 2008). "Let's record gratitude for Van's monumental talent". The Irish Times. Three songs on the album were evidently intended for Morrison's unreleased 1975 album Mechanical Bliss. "Twilight Zone", "Foggy Mountain Top" and "Flamingos Fly" were all mixed in 1974 just before Mechanical Bliss was due to come out.

In 1971, he released another well-received album, Tupelo Honey. [118] This album produced the hit single " Wild Night" that was later covered by John Mellencamp and Meshell Ndegeocello. The title song has a notably country-soul feel about it [119] and the album ended with another country tune, " Moonshine Whiskey". Morrison said he originally intended to make an all country album. [120] The recordings were as live as possible – after rehearsing the songs the musicians would enter the studio and play a whole set in one take. [121] His co-producer, Ted Templeman, described this recording process as the "scariest thing I've ever seen. When he's got something together, he wants to put it down right away with no overdubbing." [122] Bishop, Chris (27 August 2010). "The Wheels (The Wheel-a-Ways) – Garage Hangover". Archived from the original on 30 May 2015 . Retrieved 30 May 2015. Van Morrison loses court battle over extension". RTÉ News. 10 December 2002 . Retrieved 25 May 2010. Jones, Matt (2 September 2014). "Men of the Year Home / MOTY 2014 Legend: Van Morrison". GQ . Retrieved 4 September 2014. Like it or not, Morrison's genre exercises are kind of boring. Having long since sold his soul to his Muse, he's her slave for life, and though he keeps importuning various gods to loose his chains, the best they can offer is extra inspiration once in a while--now, for instance. Cliff Richard's support on his liveliest tune since "Cleaning Windows" suggests that Christ the Redeemer is lending a hand, but on the first side Van prefers to find the divine in the blessed present--folk lyric, poem about birdwatching, song called "I'd Like To Write Another Song." Side two comes out more today-is-the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-Van's-life--that is, his own genre exercise. And for a side he gets away with it. A-Collis, John (1996). Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, Little Brown and Company, ISBN 0-306-80811-0 His first interesting album in five years sounds best as a CD for the same reason it isn't all that interesting--in his current spiritual state, which could last until he rages against the dying of the light, he doesn't much care about interesting. He just wants to roll on, undulating from rhythmic hill to melodic dale. If only he'd resequenced the third-stream instrumental "Celtic Excavation" so that it closed the full-length digital work instead of opening its nonexistent second side, he'd have framed his dinner music perfectly. Yeah, dinner music--I figure if it doesn't make me want to vomit, it must have something going for it. B+

Hasty, Katie N.Y. (9 April 2008). "Strait Speeds Past REM to debut at No. 1". Billboard . Retrieved 8 September 2008. The Hollywood Walk of Fame". Seeing-stars.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010 . Retrieved 31 October 2010. The ARIA Report: Issue 876" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2008 . Retrieved 7 December 2020. a b c Grissim, John Jr. (22 June 1972). "Van Morrison: The Rolling Stone Interview". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010 . Retrieved 23 July 2010. Bert Berns, Them's producer and composer of their 1965 hit "Here Comes the Night", persuaded Morrison to return to New York to record solo for his new label, Bang Records. [68] Morrison flew over and signed a contract he had not fully studied. [69] During a two-day recording session at A & R Studios starting 28 March 1967, he recorded eight songs, originally intended to be used as four singles. [70] Instead, these songs were released as the album Blowin' Your Mind! without Morrison's consultation. He said he only became aware of the album's release when a friend mentioned that he had bought a copy. Morrison was unhappy with the album and said he "had a different concept of it". [71]

Hale, James. "Van Morrison: "The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)" ". soundstageexperience.com . Retrieved 20 July 2021. Williamson, Claire (23 August 2014). "Van Morrison's night of nostalgia in Orangefield". The Belfast Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014 . Retrieved 19 August 2015. Van seems to be turning into a machine and a natural man simultaneously. I like the machine a whole lot--this super-bouncy product is almost as rich in cute tunes as The Shirelles' Greatest Hits. But I worry that domestic bliss with Janet Planet--who here abandons liner notes to pose with hubby fore, aft, and centerfold--has been softening Van's noodle more than the joy of cooking requires. A- Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.