Van Morrison

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Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.

He started as a youth in the late 1950s and played a variety of instruments, including guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and saxophone for various Irish showbands, many of which were later called "popular hits of the time.

Van Morrison rose to prominence in the 1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he performed the garage band classic "Gloria."

Bert Berns' pop-hit oriented guidance started his solo career in 1967 with the introduction of "Brown Eyed Girl," the hit single.

Warner Bros. was the first person to be convicted of Berns' death.

Astral Weeks (1968), Records bought out his contract and gave him three sessions.

Although this album gradually received acclaim, it was still a poor seller. Van Morrison is known for his inability, idiosyncratic, and sublime.

His live performances are seen as transcendent and inspired; while some of his albums, such as Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are well-received. Morrison was a major artist in the 1970s, and he continued to grow as a performer and live performance.

He continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that are often well-received, and is often seen alongside other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains. Morrison's music is based on soul music and R&B, such as "Brown Eyed Girl," "I'm in Heaven When You Smile"), "Domino" and "Wild Night," among other popular singles.

An extended part of his catalog includes lengthy, closely linked, spiritually inspired musical journeys that reveal the influence of Celtic heritage, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness, such as the album Astral Weeks and the less well-known Veedon Fleece and Common One.

Sometimes, the two strains are referred to as "Celtic soul."

He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Grammy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In 2016, he was honoured for services to the music industry and tourism in Northern Ireland.

To his followers, he is identified by the name Van the Guy.

Personal life

Morrison lived in Belfast from birth to 1964, when he joined Them in London. After signing with Bang Records three years ago, he moved to New York. Faced with deportation due to visa issues, he managed to stay in the United States until his American mother Janet (Planet) Rigsbee, who had a son named Peter from a previous marriage, decided to marry him. Morrison and his wife were married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they found jobs in local clubs. Shana Morrison, a 1970s teen who has become a singer-songwriter, had one daughter. Morrison and his family travelled around America, including Boston, Woodstock, New York; and Fairfax, California's hilltop home. On the cover of the album Tupelo Honey, his wife appeared. In 1973, the two families divorced.

Morrison returned to the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, first settling in Notting Hill Gate, London. He then moved to Bath, where he bought the Wool Hall studio in January 1994. He also has a home in Dalkey, Ireland, where two neighbors took legal proceedings against Morrison for attempting to widen his driveway. The lawsuit was brought to court in 2001, with Morrison being the first to hear the first verdicts. Morrison argued the case all the way to the Irish Supreme Court, but his appeal was denied. In 2010, Morrison's then-wife Michelle took court action against a different neighbor, who was building a balcony and deemedigning privacy. In 2015, a separate lawsuit was dismissed.

Morrison met Irish socialite Michelle Rocca in the summer of 1992, and the two were often found in the Dublin gossip columns, an unusual occurrence for the reclusive Morrison. Days Like This is Rocca's second album cover. The couple married in February 2006 and had two children; a daughter was born in February 2006 and a son in August 2007. They were divorced in March 2018 after being revealed on his website, according to a tweet on his website.

Gigi Lee, Morrison's tour guide, gave birth to a son, who, according to his mother, was Morrison's and named after him. On Morrison's official website, Lee announced the child's birth, but Morrison denied paternity. Lee's uncle died of diabetes complications in January 2011, and Lee died shortly after from throat cancer in October 2011.

Morrison's father died in 1998, and his mother, Violet, died in 2016.

Morrison and his family are members of St Donard's Parish Church, an Anglican congregation of the Church of Ireland, which is located in east Belfast. During the Troubles, the community was described as "militantly Protestant," though Morrison's parents have always been freethinkers, with his father openly claiming himself an atheist and his mother being connected to Jehovah's Witnesses at one point. In one of Van Morrison's songs, he was introduced to Scientology in the early 1980s and thanked its engineer, L. Ron Hubbard. "I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole," he said later. "Spirituality is one thing, not faith," he said, and "religion can mean anything from soup to nuts." However, it generally refers to a company, so I don't often like to use the word because it really does not mean anything. It's actually either this church or that church, but spirituality is not the same as the individual."

Morrison left Northern Ireland before the Troubles began and distanced himself from the violence, but later "yearned for" Protestant and Catholic reconciliation. In 1972, he gave the Dublin-based magazine Spotlight, in which he said, "I'm definitely Irish." I don't think I want to return to Belfast. Despite all the bigotry, I don't miss it. We're all the same, and I'm sure it's tragic what's going on. However, I would like to buy a house in Ireland. "I'd like to spend a few months there every year."

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Life and career

George Ivan Morrison was born on August 31, 1945, at 125 Hyndford Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the sole child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a tap dancer, was born in her youth. Lee Child's father, the previous owner of the house, was the writer. Morrison's family descended from the Ulster Scots who settled in Belfast. Morrison went from 1950 to 1956, and became known as "Van" at the time, was enrolled in Elmgrove Primary School. His father had one of Northern Ireland's largest record collections (acquired during his time in Detroit, Michigan, 1950s), and young Morrison grew up listening to musicians like Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and Solomon Burke, who later stated, "I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon." Those guys were the spark that got me going. I certainly wouldn't do what I'm doing now if it wasn't for that kind of music.

Sonny Terry's first record was exposed to many musical genres, including the blues of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson's gospel; the jazz of Mahalia Jackson; the folk music of Woody Guthrie; and country music from Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers; Morrison, who had been listening to Lead Belly before that, was impressed with and able to connect with skiffle music.

Morrison's father bought him his first acoustic guitar when he was eleven, and he learned to play rudimentary chords from Alan Lomax's book The Carter Family Style. Morrison formed his first band, 'The Sputniks,' named after the satellite, Sputnik 1, which had been launched in October by the Soviets in 1957. The group appeared at several of the local theaters in 1958, and Morrison took the lead, contributing most of the singing and arranging. He formed Midnight Special, a new skiffle band, and appeared at a school concert, one of other short-lived groups that followed. When Jimmy Giuffre appeared on "The Train and The River," he convinced him that he needed a saxophone and took lessons in tenor saxophone and music theory. Morrison, now playing the saxophone, appeared in several local bands, including Deanie Sands and the Javelins, with whom he performed guitar and shared singing. Deanie Sands, guitarist George Jones, and drummer and vocalist Roy Kane were among the band's lineup members. The four main players of the Javelins became the Monarchs later in life, with the addition of Wesley Black as pianist.

Morrison graduated from Orangefield Boys Secondary School in July 1960 with no certificates. He had aspired to work as a member of a working-class neighborhood, so after a string of short apprenticeship jobs, he landed into a job as a window cleaner, which later appeared in his songs "Cleaning Windows" and "Saint Dominic's Perspective." However, he had been developing his musical passions from an early age and was still playing with the Monarchs part-time. Young Morrison performed with the Harry Mack Showband, the Great Eight, with his older colleague, Geordie (G. D. Sproule), whom he later described as one of his top influences.

Morrison was in Europe for the first time with the Monarchs, who now refer to them as the International Monarchs. This Irish showband, with Morrison playing saxophone, guitar, and harmonica in addition to back-up duties on bass and drums, toured steamy clubs and US Army bases in Scotland, England, and Germany, often playing five sets a night. The band formed "Boozoo Gully"/"Twingy Baby" during their German tour, Georgie and the Monarchs. This was Morrison's first recording, recorded at Ariola Studios in Cologne in November 1963, with Morrison on saxophone; it was one of the lower reaches of the German charts.

Morrison was disbanded when returning to Belfast in November 1963, so the band reunited with Geordie Sproule and performed in the Manhattan Showband with guitarist Herbie Armstrong. Morrison went along and was hired as a blues singer when Armstrong tried to play with Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles, later known as the Wheels.

Them, the band that first broke Morrison on international stage, formed in April 1964 when he responded to an invitation for musicians to perform at a new R&B club in College Square North, an old Belfast hostel frequented by sailors. Morrison wanted a band for its opening night, but the Golden Eagles had left the club (the group with whom he had been performing at the time), so he formed a new band out of the Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962. Eric Wrixon, a schoolboy, was both a pianist and keyboardist. Morrison performed saxophone and harmonica, as well as sharing vocals with Billy Harrison. They followed Eric Wrixon's call for a new name and the Gamblers morphed into Them, their name taken from the Fifties horror film Them!

The band's good R&B shows at the Maritime attracted attention. Them performed without a routine and Morrison ad libbed, composing his songs live as he performed. Although the band did covers, they also performed some of Morrison's early songs, including "Could You Would You," which he wrote in Camden Town while touring with the Manhattan Showband. "Gloria" was Morrison's debut on stage. Depending on his mood, a song could last up to twenty minutes. Morrison has written, "Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel," the band failed to capture the band's live performances' spontaneity and vigour. The message also highlighted the dynamism of the Them line-up, with numerous members passing through the ranks after the definitive Maritime period. Morrison and Henderson remained the only constants, while a less popular version of Them soldier pushed forward following Morrison's departure.

Dick Rowe of Decca Records became aware of the band's success and signed Them to a two-year deal. They released two albums and ten singles in that time, with two more singles releasing after Morrison left the band. They had three chart hits, including "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1964), "Here Comes the Night" (1965), and "Mystic Eyes" (1965), but it was the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go," the garage band's hit "Gloria" that went on to become a rock standard embraced by Patti Smith, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and many others.

Them undertook a two-month tour of America in May and June 1966, riding on the success of their singles in the United States and riding the back of the British Invasion. The Whisky a Go Go Go Go Go Go Go go to Los Angeles from 30 May to June 1966. The Doors were the supporting act on the last week, and John Densmore's mention of Jim Morrison in his book Riders on the Storm was a tribute. "Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near-namesake's stagecraft, his apparent insensitivity, his air of subpoena, the way he would improvise poetry to a rock beat, and even his habit of crouching down by the bass drum during instrumental breaks," Brian Hinton describes. On the final night of "Gloria," the two Morrisons and the two bands jammed together.

The band members became embroiled in a feud with their boss, Decca Records' Phil Solomon, over the money they received; the band members were dejected from America after that period. Them split up after two more concerts in Ireland. Morrison concentrated on writing some of the songs that would be available on Astral Weeks, while the band's remains reformed in 1967 and relocated in America.

Bert Berns, Them's producer and composer of their 1965 hit "Here Comes the Night," persuaded Morrison to return to New York solo for his new label, Bang Records. Morrison swoop over and signed a deal that he hadn't fully understood. He recorded eight songs during a two-day recording session at A & R Studios, beginning on March 28, 1967, and were originally intended to be used as four singles. These songs were rather released as the album Blowin's Mind! Morrison's discussion would have been helpful. He said he only became aware of the album's availability after a friend told him he had bought a copy. Morrison was dissatisfied with the album and said he had "had a different interpretation of it."

In mid-June 1967, Blowin's Your Mind!'s "Brown Eyed Girl" was released as a single, peaking at number ten in the US charts. Morrison's most popular song, "Brown Eyed Girl," became Morrison's most popular film. The album lasted for a total of sixteen weeks on the chart. It is said to be Morrison's most popular song.

"Brown Eyed Girl" was the most popular song of the entire 1960s decade, according to an analysis conducted in 2005 and airplay since 2010. It was ranked at No. 1 in 2000 when it was first announced. 21 on the Rolling Stone/MTV list of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs and as No. 21 on the Rolling Stone/MTV list of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs and as No. 1. On VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs, 49 are ranked No. 49. In 2010, "Brown Eyed Girl" was ranked No. 1 in the United States. On the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, 110 are on the 110th. In January 2007, "Brown Eyed Girl" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Morrison became involved in a labor dispute with Berns' widow, Ilene Berns, that prevented him from performing on stage or recording in the New York area following Berns' death in 1967. The album "Big Time Operators," which was released in 1993, is believed to refer to his attempts to work in the New York music industry during this period. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and suffered with personal and financial difficulties; he had "slipped into a depression" and had trouble finding concert tickets. He recovered his career from the few gigs he could find and began releasing with Warner Bros. Records.

Warner Bros bought out Morrison's Bang contract with a $20,000 cash exchange that took place in a defunct warehouse on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. Morrison was expected to submit 36 original songs within a year to Berns' music publishing company under a pact. He recorded them in one session on an out-of-tune guitar, with lyrics on topics ranging from ringworm and sandwiches. Berns thought the songs were "nonsense" and didn't use them. The throwaway compositions were originally regarded as the "revenge" songs, but they did not see official release until The Authorized Bang Collection, 2017.

Astral Weeks (which he had already appeared in several clubs around Boston), a mystical song cycle, often regarded as his best work and one of the best albums of all time, Morrison's debut for Warner Bros Records. "I was starving, literally every week as Astral Weeks came out," Morrison said. The album, which was released in 1968, received critical praise, but the public initially responded with indifference. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic characterized it as hypnotic, meditative, and as possessing a unique musical ability. It has been likened to French Impressionism and mystical Celtic poetry.

"This is music of such enigmatic beauty that has thirty-five years since its debut, Astral Weeks defys simple, admiring description." Alan Lightmore characterized Astral Weeks as "like nothing he'd done before" —and, really, nothing anyone had done before." Morrison sings of lost passion, death, and a fondness for childhood in the Celtic soul that would become his signature. It has been included on several lists of the best albums of all time. It was ranked as number two on the Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 Best Albums of All Time in 1995 and ranked as number nineteen. According to a survey of leading Irish musicians that was published by Hot Press magazine in December 2009, it was named the best Irish album of all time.

Morrison's third solo album, Moondance, was released in 1970 and hit the Billboard charts at number eight. Moondance's style was quite different from that of Astral Weeks. Moondance, who had a bleak and fragile tone at Astral Weeks, played a more optimistic and cheery tone to his music, switching to more formally composed songs and a vibrant rhythm and blues style that he developed throughout his career.

The title song, although not released in the United States as a single until 1977, has received a lot of attention in FM radio broadcast formats. Over the years, "Into the Mystic" has developed a large following. Morrison was rescued from what seemed to be Hot 100 obscurity at the time, "Come Running," which made it to the American Top 40. Both moondance was well received and highly praised. Morrison now had "the striking imagination of a consciousness that is visionary in the best sense of the term," Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus wrote in Rolling Stone. Morrison described the Moondance sessions as "the type of band I dig." "They're the kind of bands that I love the most," says the composer. He made the album himself because he felt as if no one else knew what he wanted. Moondance appeared on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time at number sixty-five. Moondance was ranked number seventy-two on the NARM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "Definitive 200" in March 2007.

He released a number of albums over the next few years, beginning with a second one in 1970. In the opinion of critic Jon Landau, his band and the Street Choir had a more relaxed sound than Moondance, but not the perfection. It contained the hit song "Domino," which debuted at number nine in the Billboard Hot 100, which debuted at number nine.

He released Tupelo Honey, another well-received album, in 1971. The hit single "Wild Night" was later covered by John Mellencamp and Meshell Ndegeocello. The title song has a distinct country-soul feel to it, and the album ended with another country song, "Moonshine Whiskey." Morrison said he had intended to record an all-country album. The recordings were as live as possible – after rehearsing the songs, the musicians would step into the studio and perform a complete set in a single take. Ted Templeman, his co-producer, referred to this recording process as the "scariest thing I've ever seen." He needs to get something together right away with no overdubbing."

Morrison's departure from his earlier three albums' more accessible style was revealed in Astral Weeks' more exciting, adventurous, and contemplative aspects. The result of two styles of music displayed a degree of flexibility that was not previously found in his earlier albums. "I'm in Heaven When You Smile" and "Redwood Tree," two songs from Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) and "Redwood Tree" have made it to the Hot 100 singles chart. Both the songs "Listen to the Lion" and "Almost Independence Day" are over ten minutes long and use the same poetic imagery that has not been seen since Astral Weeks. It was his highest-charting album in the United States until his Top Ten debut on Billboard 200 in 2008.

In 1973, he launched Hard Nose the Highway, which received mixed, but mostly critical feedback. The album featured the famous song "Warm Love," but otherwise, it was largely dismissed. It was described as "psychologically complicated, musically fragmented, and lyrically superb" in a 1973 Rolling Stone review.

Morrison wrote seven of the songs that inspired his new album, Veedon Fleece, during a three-week holiday in Ireland in October 1973. Though it attracted scant initial interest, its critical stature has risen sharply over the years, with Veedon Fleece now widely considered one of Morrison's most influential and poetic works. Andy Greene writes that when it was released in late 1974, "it was welcomed by a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment," and concludes: "He hasn't released many fantastic albums since, but not to the majestic heights of this one." One of the album's closers, "You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River," one of the album's closers emphasizes the long, hypnotic, cryptic Morrison's references to visionary poet William Blake and the ostensibly Grail-like Veedon Fleece object.

Morrison's follow-up album took three years to be released. He said in an interview that he had to get away from music completely and stopped listening to it for several months. He also suffers from writer's block, so he seriously considered leaving the music industry for good. A belief that an extended jam session would be announced either under the name Mechanical Bliss, Naked in the Jungle, or Stiff Upper Lip, came to nothing, and Morrison's next album, A Time of Transition, was released in 1977, a tribute to Morrison's appearance at The Last Waltz concert in 1976. The album received a modest critical reception and signaled the start of a long line of song making.

Morrison's Wavelength was released next year; at that time, it was the fastest-selling album of his career; it soon went gold. The title track was a modest success, peaking at number forty-two. It mimics the sounds of the shortwave radio stations he listened to in his youth by using synthesizers from the 1970s. Morrison's childhood experiences of faith with his mother were brought to life by Jehovah's Witnesses, which were more apparent on his new album, Into the Music.

Into the Music, nicknamed by AllMusic as "the definitive post-classic Morrison" in the 1970s, was released in the last year of the 1970s. For the first time, songs on this album alluded to the music's repairing ability, which was an enduring passion of Morrison's. "Bright Side of the Road" was a joyful, uplifting song that appeared on Michael's soundtrack.

Morrison's new decade brought his muse into uncharted territory with sometimes merciless reviews. Morrison and a group of musicians travelled to Super Bear, a studio in the French Alps, in February 1980; later "Morrison admitted his initial idea was even more esoteric than the final product." Common One, a six-track collection; the longest, "Summertime in England," lasted fifteen and a half minutes and ended with the phrase "Can you hear the silence?" Paul Du Noyer of NME magazine called the album "colossally smug and nostalgically dull," an interminable, vacuous, and largely egotistic stab at spirituality. "Into the muzak" was described as "colossally smug and drearily egotistical stab at spirituality. "It's Van playing the part of the'mystic poet' he seems he's supposed to be," Greil Marcus, who had previously leaned on Morrison, said. Morrison claimed that the album was never meant to be a commercial product. "He would not attempt anything so exciting again," biographer Clinton Heylin says. Any revolutionary concept would betempered by some notion of commerciality, therebyforth. Critics revisited the album more closely with the success of "Summertime in England." "Van was making holy music even though he suspected he was wrong," Lester Bangs wrote in 1982, "and us rock critics made the usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics."

Morrison's next album, Beautiful Vision, which was released in 1982, saw him return to the sounds of his Northern Irish roots. It was a hit single for the United Kingdom and abroad, "Cleaning Windows," referring to one of Morrison's first jobs after leaving school. Several other songs on the album, including "Vivanlose Stairway," "She Gives Me Religion," and "Scandinavia" highlight Morrison's personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent who would reveal Morrison's spiritual interests and maintain his steadying presence on him through the 1980s. In the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the 25th Annual Grammy Awards, "Scandinavia" with Morrison on piano was nominated.

Much of Morrison's music in the 1980s shifted to the topics of spirituality and faith. In 1983, his album, Inscription to the Heart, was "a step toward making music for meditation" with synthesisers, uilleann pipes, and flute sounds, and four of the tracks were instrumentals. Morrison's long-standing belief that "it's not the words one uses but the power of conviction behind those words that matters," the album's titling and appearance were both reported. Morrison had studied Scientology and wrote "Special Thanks" to L. Ron Hubbard on the album's credits during this period.

Morrison's 1985 album A Sense of Wonder brought together the spiritual themes from his last four albums, which were described in a Rolling Stone review as "rebirth (Intuitive Meditation), deep reflection, and meditation (Beautiful Vision); and blissful, mantra languor). Morrison's single "Tower Down a la Rimbaud" was a reference to Rimbaud and a previous bout of writer's block that Morrison had encountered in 1974. Morrison wrote the musical score for the film Lamb, starring Liam Neeson, in 1985.

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, 1985 Morrison's book "genuine holiness" was reported in No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, "No Teacher," which was accompanied by a "modernity of knowledge." A critical reaction was favourable, with a Sounds reviewer describing the album as "his most interestingly involved since Astral Weeks" and "Morrison at its most mystical, magical best." It features the song "In the Garden" that, according to Morrison, has a "definite meditation process" that is a 'form' of transcendental meditation. It isn't TM"s that it's not TM. The album was deemed a reaction to mass media attempts to place him in various creeds. Anthony Denselow told Anthony Denselow in an interview with the Observer: he told him: he told him: 'Tony Denselow: he told him in an interview.

Morrison's music on his recently released album, Poetic Champions Compose, was less gritty and more adult contemporary, and it was considered one of his 1980s recording highlights. The romantic ballad from this album's "Someone Like You" appears in subsequent soundtracks, including 1995's French Kiss and Bridget Jones' Diary in 2001.

In 1988, he released Irish Heartbeat, a collection of traditional Irish folk songs recorded with the Chieftains, which debuted at number 18 in the UK album charts. "Irish Heartbeat," the title track, was originally released on his 1983 album Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.

The 1989 album, Avalon Sunset, which featured Cliff Richard's hit duet "Whenever God Shines His Light" and the ballad "Have I Told You Lately" (on which "earthly love transmutes into a word for God), reached No. 13 on the UK chart (Hinton). Despite being regarded as a deeply spiritual collection, it also contained "Daring Night" ("deals with full, blazing sex, whatever its church organ and delicate lilt suggest) (Hinton). Morrison's favorite songs, "God, woman," his youth in Belfast, and those enchanted times when time stands still," were among the songs. At the end of this song, he can be seen screaming out the change of pace, repeating the numbers "1 – 4" to cue the chord changes (the first and fourth chord in the key of the song). He made albums in two days, with most of them releasing first takes.

Morrison's early to mid-1990s were commercially lucrative, with three albums ranked in the top five of the UK charts, sold-out concerts, and a greater public profile; at the same time, the critical reception to his work suffered. The decade began with the release of The Best of Van Morrison, compiled by Morrison himself, and the album became a multi-platinum hit, despite remaining a year and a half on the UK charts. AllMusic has chosen it to be "far and away the best selling album of his career." On the Carrying A Torch album, he wrote and produced four songs for Tom Jones, who also appeared on the BBC Arena special.

The 1994 live double album A Night in San Francisco received critical acclaim as well as commercial success, achieving number eight on the UK charts. Days Like This, 1995, saw record sales, but the critical reviews were not always positive. Morrison also performed live jazz concerts from 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, as well as the Live Jazz concerts of Deborah Ferguson, which culminated in Morrison's homage to his early musical influences.

Morrison released The Healing Game in 1997. Both critics and reviewers were mixed on the album, with the lyrics being characterized as "tired" and "dull," in a tweeter. "It takes the listener into a musical home so beautiful and complete that she may have forgotten that music can call up such a place and then populate it with people, actions, wishes, and fears." Morrison's Stone, a two-disc set, eventually released some of his previously unissued studio recordings in a two-disc set. Back on Top, 1999's Back on Top, his first-charging album in the United States since 1978's Wavelength, achieved modest success.

Van Morrison continued to record and tour in the 2000s, often performing two or three times a week. Exile Productions Ltd, he founded, enables him to have complete creative control of each album he produces and exports as a finished product to the record label that he selects for marketing and distribution.

Lewis Lewis left the tour in 2001 after nine months on a tour with Linda Gail Lewis promoting their partnership You Win Again. Both allegations were later dismissed, and Morrison's solicitor said, "Mr Morrison's) delighted that these allegations had been removed. He has given up completely and a complete retraction, which is a complete vindication of his position from the outset. Miss Lewis has written a complete and categorical apology and retraction for Mr Morrison." Both sides had agreed to the terms of the deal, according to Lewis' legal representative.

Down the Road, which was released in May 2002, attracted a critical reception and proved to be the most high-charging album in the United States since 1972's Saint Dominic's Preview. Morrison had a nostalgic tone, with 15 tracks expressing various musical styles — including R&B, blues, country, and folk — among other genres that Morrison had previously covered, including R&B, blues, country, and folk; one of the tracks was dedicated to his late father George, who had a central role in instilling his early musical tastes.

On the debut of Morrison's 2005 album, Magic Time, at number twenty-five on the US Billboard 200 charts in May, some forty years since Morrison first appeared on the front page of Them as the frontman. On The Top 50 Records of 2005, Rolling Stone ranked it at number seventeen. Morrison was also inducted into the Amazon.com Hall of Fame in July 2005 and was named one of the top ten best-selling artists in the country's top twenty-five best-selling artists. Morrison also contributed to a charity album named "Come Together Now," which raised funds for relief efforts for Gulf Coast victims of hurricane Katrina and Rita's destruction. Morrison wrote "Blue and Green" with Foggy Lyttle on guitar, a Morrison song. This song appeared on the album The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 in 2007 and also in the United Kingdom as a single. In the summer of 2005, Van Morrison performed at the Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.

Pay the Devil, a country music theme, was released on March 7th, 2006, and the tickets were sold out immediately after they were released. Pay the Devil debuted at number twenty-six on the Billboard 200 and debuted at number seven on Top Country Albums, peaking at number seven. In December 2006, Amazon.com Editor's Picks in Country announced the country album at number ten in the country. Morrison's appearance as the headline act on the first night of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on September 15, 2006, was ranked as one of the top ten shows of the 2006 festival by Rolling Stone magazine. Exile Productions, Ltd., limited edition album Live at Austin City Limits Festival in November 2006, included tracks from the Ryman appearance. Morrison had released Live at Montreux 1980-1974, his first commercial DVD, with performances taken from two separate appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in October 2006.

In June 2007, a new double CD compilation album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 was released, with some of which were previously unreleased. Morrison curated the songs from 1993's album Too Long in Exile to the 2005 album "Stranded." Morrison's complete catalog of albums from 1971 to 2002 were only available at iTunes Store in Europe and Australia, and the albums were released by the US iTunes Store in the first week of October 2007.

Easily on top – The Greatest Hits, a thirty-seven-track double CD compilation album, was released on October 22, 2007, on the Polydor brand in the United Kingdom. The album debuted at number two on the Official UK Top 75 Albums on October 29, 2007, his highest UK charting debut. Twenty-one tracks have been released in the United States and Canada in November. The hits that were released on albums containing Morrison's copyrights Exile Productions Ltd.'s 1971 and later were remastered in 2007.

Morrison's 33rd studio album of mainly new material was released by Exile/Polydor Records in the United Kingdom on March 17th, 2008, and Exile/Lost Highway Records in the United States and Canada on 1 April 2008. It consisted of eleven self-penned tracks. Morrison promoted the album on BBC Radio 2 in the United States, with an appearance at the SXSW music festival and a UK concert broadcast. Keep It Simple debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number ten in the first week of its debut, Morrison's first Top Ten charting in the United States.

Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B on Blue Note Records on October 2, 2012. The album was recorded in Belfast, Morrison's birthplace and hometown. On August 24, 2012, the first single from this album, "Open the Door (To Your Heart), was released. City Lights Books in the United States and Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom featured a selection of Morrison's songs, Lit Up Inside. The book was published on October 2nd, 2014, and a night of words and music opened at the Lyric Theatre, London, on November 17th, 2014, to mark its debut. Morrison selected his best and most famous songs from a collection of 50 years of writing.

Duets: Re-working the Catalogue on RCA Records was released on March 24, 2015. Morrison's 70th birthday in 2015 was commemorated by celebrations in Belfast, beginning with BBC Radio Ulster's "Top 70 Van Tracks" from June 26 to August 28. Morrison appeared on Cyprus Avenue on his birthday 31 August, making him the headline act at the Eastside Arts Festival. On September 4, the first of the concerts, which Up On Cyprus Avenue, BBC Radio Ulster's first live stream of highlights from the performances, was first broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster, and a 60-minute BBC film of highlights from the shows, entitled Up On Cyprus Avenue, was first broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster. Morrison's 36th studio album Keep Me Singing appeared on September 30th. On the same day, "Too Late," the first single, was released. The album features twelve originals and one cover, and it is the first originals to be released since Born to Sing: No Plan B in 2012. In October 2016, a short tour of the United States and six dates, followed by a short tour of the United Kingdom with eight dates, including a London show at The O2 Arena on October 30. In January 2017, the United States tour returned to Las Vegas and Clearwater, Florida, with five new dates.

Morrison's album Roll with the Punches was released on September 22, 2017. Billy Two Rivers, a former professional wrestler, was sued by Billy Two Rivers in July for using his name on its backpage and promotional material without his permission. The parties had reached a preliminary deal to resolve the matter out of court, according to Two Rivers' lawyer. Versatile, his 38th studio album, was released on December 1st. It includes covers of nine classic jazz standards and seven original songs, as well as his interpretation of the popular "Skye Boat Song." He quickly followed up with his 39th studio album, You're Driving Me Crazy, which was released on Sony Legacy Recordings on April 27, 2018. The collection includes eight Morrison originals from his back catalog, as well as a Joey DeFrancesco's collaboration on a series of blues and jazz legends.

Morrison revealed in October 2018 that his 40th studio album, The Prophet Speaks, would be published by Caroline International on December 7, 2018. In November 2019, he released Three Chords & the Truth, his 41st studio album. Keep 'Er Lit, the second volume of Van Morrison's selected songs, was released on March 5, 2020. Faber and Faber were astonish. It includes a foreword by fellow poet Paul Muldoon and analyses 120 songs from his career. Morrison and Eric Clapton joined in November 2020 on "Stand and Deliver," whose proceeds from sales will be donated to Morrison's Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund.

According to Van Morrison's official website, his next studio album titled Moving on Skiffle will be released in March 2023. It's a double album that also serves as a compact disc, and it features 23 songs, and you can see it on the artist's official website: https://www.vanmorrison.com/moving-on-skiffle.

Morrison made several arguments against social distancing laws that were affecting live music performances, as well as calls to "fight pseudo-science." Morrison also published three new songs in September 2020, which included notes of opposition against COVID-19 lockdowns in the United Kingdom. Morrison accused the UK government of "taking our liberty." He had attended socially distant concerts before, but said that the performances were not a sign of "compliance."

Following the crisis, there have been calls in Belfast for Belfast City Council to revoke his Freedom of the City's honour; city councillor Emmet McDonough-Brown said that his lyrics are "undermining the rules in place to shield lives and are unaware of established science." In addition, Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann accused Morrison of smearing public health professionals and labeling Morrison's anti-lockdown songs "dangerous." Swann sued Morrison for defamation after he said that Swann was a "fraud" and "very risky" under COVID-19 restrictions in 2020. Van Morrison launched court suits against Mr Swann in 2022 for his apprehensions of the singer, which were first published in an opinion piece for Rolling Stone magazine.

Morrison's 42nd album, Latest Record Project, Volume 1, will be released by Exile Productions and BMG on May 7th. "Why Are You on Facebook?" The 28-track collection includes songs such as "Why Are You on Facebook?" "They Own The Media" and "Western Man" are two popular television shows. It was not limited to digital media and on triple vinyl. Morrison's return to the UK Top ten in the fourth decade in which he has achieved such success.

"What's it Gonna Take" in the upcoming year, "What's it Gonna Take"? Many of the same topics were explored, but commercially, it was less fruitful.

The songs of Van Morrison were used extensively in Kenneth Branagh's Oscar-winning 2021 film Belfast. Several tracks from Cherry were also included in the compilation, which was released the same year.

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