![]() ![]() Van Morrison is living with his wife, Janet Rigsbee, signed to a famously loathsome contract with Bang Records which not only prevented him from recording anything new but also effectively kept him from picking up any gigs in New York City. Of those albums, there’s one that invariably sits perched in the topmost spot: Astral Weeks, the LP that is to Morrison’s discography what Pet Sounds is to The Beach Boys’ back catalog. That said, Van Morrison has delivered albums over the course of his career which are so powerful and moving that even if some people can’t forgive him his transgressions, they can at least forget them for the duration of those albums. His full and formal title is Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE, but he’s better known as Van, and let’s face it: he’s a real piece of work, an artist who’s never been afraid to do what he wants, say what he wants, and express himself in a manner that often thoroughly infuriates large chunks of his fanbase. ![]()
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