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Van Morrison discography. This is the discography of Northern Irish singer Van Morrison . Morrison made his first recording playing saxophone on "Boozoo Hully Gully" with the International Monarchs in 1962. [1] . His first recording session as lead singer/songwriter with Them was produced by Dick Rowe at Decca 's studio.
- Blowin
Blowin' Your Mind! is the debut studio album by Northern...
- Enlightenment
Enlightenment is the twentieth studio album by Northern...
- Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey is the fifth studio album by Northern Irish...
- The Best of Van Morrison
The Best of Van Morrison is a compilation album by Northern...
- Back on Top
Critic George Graham lauded it as "one of his best, most...
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Life and career. Live performances. Collaborations....
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Van Morrison, OBE (Order of the British Empire), born 31 August 1945 in Belfast, is a Grammy Award-winning Northern Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s.
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Formation
In April 1964, Van Morrison responded to an advert for musicians to play at a new R&B club at the Maritime Hotel–an old dance hall frequented by sailors. The new R&B club needed a band for its opening night; however Morrison had left the Golden Eagles (the group with which he had been performing at the time), so he created a new band out of the Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962. Eric Wrixon, still a schoolboy, was the piano p...
Maritime Hotel
On 14 April 1964, an advertisement in a Belfastnewspaper asked: "Who Are? What Are? THEM". Similarly curious advertisements followed until the Friday before the gig (17 April 1964) announced that Them would be performing that evening at Club Rado at the Maritime Hotel. Attendance at the two hundred capacity venue quickly grew with a packed house by the third week. Them performed without a routine, fired by the crowd's energy. Morrison later commented that while the band was "out of our elemen...
With Decca
Them's first recording session took place in London on 5 July 1964. "Turn on Your Love Light" and "Gloria" were recorded during this session as were both sides of their first single, "Don't Start Crying Now" and "One Two Brown Eyes" as well as "Groovin'", "Philosophy" and Bo Diddley's "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover". The session was remarkable in its employment of two drums tracks, which can be clearly heard in the stereo mixes of "Gloria" and "One Two Brown Eyes". Rowe used session mus...
Success in North America and departure of Morrison
The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion. After the success of "Here Comes the Night", the band scored a chart hit again later in 1965 with "Mystic Eyes", which reached No.33. Them Again, released in April 1966 in the US, also charted and the band began a US tour in May 1966. From 30 May to 18 June, Them had a residency at the famous Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. For the final week The Doors opened for Them and on the last night the two bands and Morrisons...
Belfast Gypsies
In late August 1965, Billy Harrison and Pat McAuley formed a rival Them, competing with the Morrison/Henderson line-up and leading to legal action. In March 1966, the latter won the rights to the name while the former, now without Harrison but with Pat's brother Jackie McAuley (born John James McAuley, 14 December 1946, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; ex-Them, ex-Kult), were only allowed to call themselves 'Other Them' in the UK. The McAuley brothers unofficially became Th...
1968 until dissolution
Two albums, Now and Them and Time Out! Time In for Them, found the band experimenting with psychedelia. Then Jim Armstrong and Kenny McDowell returned to Belfast to perform as Sk'boo (Armstrong, McDowell and Ray Elliot reunited in Chicago in 1969 as Truth and recorded a number of demos and soundtrack songs later released as Of Them and Other Tales). Henderson hired session musicians for two more records for Ray Ruff's Happy Tiger Records, in a hard rock vein with country and folk elements; Th...
Compilation albums
1. The World of Them– (1970) (UK Decca- PA/SPA-86) 2. Them Featuring Van Morrison– (1972) – A double LP consisting of 20 cuts from first two US albums 3. Backtrackin'– (1974), London (US), Decca (NZ) 4. Rock Roots– (1976), Decca 5. The Story of Them– (1977) 6. Them Featuring Van Morrison– (1985) 7. The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison – (1997), Deram 8. Gold – (2005), Deram; 2006 release Universal International; 2008 release Universal Japan. Contains 49 tracks, all from the Van Morrison p...
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One of music’s true originals Sir Van Morrison’s unique and inspirational musical legacy is rooted in postwar Belfast. Born in 1945 Van heard his Shipyard worker father’s collection of blues, country and gospel early in life. Feeding off musical greats such as Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson and Leadbelly he ...
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