Before he was a genius, Van Morrison was a professional, and he’d probably take the latter as a higher compliment. Morrison came up in the world of Irish showbands — a regionalized variant on the jazz ...

It’s 11.50pm, well past 3Arena’s bedtime, when Niall Stokes of Hot Press announces: “You won’t get jokes out of me. I am not Tommy Tiernan.” When Stokes set up his influential music magazine, it might ...

Van Morrison performing in Memphis in 2022.(Image: Getty Images) The cash pile at the music firm owned by Van Morrison last year surged to €20.85m in another bumper year for the music legend. New ...

Soundtracks of a Generation will present An Irish Heartbeat: A Tribute to the Music of Van Morrison, coming to the Raue Center For The Arts on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 7 PM. This high-energy ...

Have you told Van Morrison lately that you love him? Chances are that, sadly, you haven’t been able to, because at the grand old age of 80 he does not tour as much as he once did. However, all is not ...

Music legend Van Morrison is wasting no time in 2026, following up the Top 10 success of his acclaimed album Remembering Now with a gritty, unfiltered return to his musical foundations. His latest ...

Bob Dylan and Van Morrison go way back. The two legendary contemporaries have covered one another tons of times over the years. They've performed together on multiple occasions -- including, as ...

The heart of all this might be the night of April 27, 1966, when Van Morrison, then 22-year-old frontman of riotous Belfast R&B outfit Them, met a 19-year-old Bay Area model called Janet Rigsbee. The ...

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“My heart was beating on the hillside/Near Belvedere and Tiburon/I need to take you back, back down to ‘Frisco,” sings Van Morrison in 2016’s “In Tiburon.” In 1971, prolific singer-songwriter Van ...

He’s the grumpy genius who gave the world Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance and the otherworldly masterpiece Astral Weeks. And on August 31, Van Morrison hit the big 8-0 - still touring, still recording, and ...

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more. Extend the holiday with tracks from Sinead O’Connor, the Pogues, Kneecap and more. By ...