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School Of Hard Knocks
From the Album 1. Some Peace Of Mind 2. If I Ever Needed Someone 3. Higher Than The World 4. Wild Honey 5. Whatever Happened To PJ Proby? 6. Carrying A Torch 7. The Eternal Kansas City 8. Streets Of Arklow 9. These Are The Days 10. Get On With The Show 11. Rough God Goes Riding 12. Fire In The Belly 13. Born To Sing 14. Irish Heartbeat 15. Real Real Gone 16. How Can A Poor Boy?
Other Songs 4% Pantomime A Foggy Day A New Kind Of Man A Sense Of Wonder A Town Called Paradise Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell Ain't Gonna Moan No More Aint Nothin You Can Do Ain't That Loving You Baby? Alabamy Bound Alan Watts Blues All Saints Day All The Bits All Work And No Play Allow Me Almost Independence Day Ancient Highway Ancient Of Days And It Stoned Me And the Healing Has Begun Angeliou Aryan Mist Asense Of Wonder Astral Weeks Astral Weeks/I Believe I've Transcended At The End Of The Day Automobile Blues Autumn Song Avalon Of The Heart Baby Please Dont Go Baby You Got What It Takes Back O Town Blues Back On The Corner Back On Top Back Street Affair Ball and Chain Ballerina Bayou Girl Be Thou My Vision Beautiful Obsession Beautiful Vision Before The World Was Made Behind The Ritual Bein Green Benediction Beside You Big Blue Diamonds Big Time Operators Bigtime Operators Bit By Bit Blow In Your Nose Blue Money Blue Suede Shoes Blues In The Night Boogie Chillen Brand New Day Bright Lights Big City Bright Side of the Road Bring It On Home To Me Broken Record Brown Eyed Girl Bulbs Burning Ground By His Grace Bye Bye Blackbird Cadillac Caledonia Soul Music Caledonia Swing Call Me Up In Dreamland Caravan Carrickfergus Carry On Regardless Celtic Excavation Celtic New Year Celtic Ray Celtic Spring Celtic Swing Centerpiece Centrepiece Checkin It Out Chick-A-Boom Chickee Coo Choppin Wood City Home Cleaning Windows Close Enough For Jazz Cold Wind In August Come Here My Love Come Running Comfort You Comfortably Numb Coney Island Connswater Contacting My Angel Contemplation Rose Country Fair Crazy Arms Crazy Face Crazy Jane On God Crazy Love Cry For Home Cul De Sac Cyprus Avenue Cyprus Avenue/You Came Walking Down Daring Night Dark Night Of The Soul Days Gone By Days Like This Dead Or Alive Did Ye Get Healed? Do It Domino Dont Change On Me Dont Go To Nightclubs Anymore Don't Look Back Don't Start Crying Now Dont Worry About A Thing Dont Worry About Tomorrow Dont You Make Me High Dont You Rock Me Daddio Down The Road Down To Earth Down to Joy Drivin Wheel Drumshanbo Hustle Dum Dum George Dweller On The Threshold Early In The Morning Educating Archie End Of The Land End Of The Rainbow Enlightenment Evening In June Evening Meditation Evening Shadow Evening Shadows Evening Train Every Time I See A River Everyone Everytime I See A River Fair Play Fame Fast Train Feedback Out On Highway 101 Flamingos Fly Foggy Mountain Top For Mr. Thomas Foreign Window Frankie and Johnny Freaky If You Got This Far Fridays Child Full Force Gale Georgia On My Mind Give Me A Kiss Give Me a Kiss (Just One Sweet Kiss) Give Me My Rapture Glad Tidings Gloria Go For Yourself Goin Down Geneva Goin' Down To Monte Carlo Goin To Chicago Going Down To Bangor Going Down To Monte Carlo Going Home Golden Autumn Day Goldfish Bowl Good Morning Blues Good Morning Little School Girl Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Goodbye Baby Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) Goodbye George Goodnight Irene Got To Go Back Got To Go Where the Love Is Green Mansions Grits Aint Groceries Gypsy Gypsy In My Soul Gypsy Queen Half As Much Hang On Groovy Hard Nose The Highway Haunts Of Ancient Peace Have I Told You Lately Have I Told You Lately That I Love You He Aint Give You None Heathrow Shuffle Heavy Connection Help Me Here Comes Dumb George Here Comes The Knight Here Comes The Night Hey Mr. DJ High Spirits High Summer Hold On George Holy Guardian Angel Hound Dog How Far From God How Long Has This Been Going On? Hungry for Your Love Hymns To The Silence I Believe Ive Transcended I Believe To My Soul I Can Only Give You Everything I Can Tell I Cant Stop Loving You I Dont Want Much I Forgot That Love Existed I Get a Kick Out of You I Have Finally Come To Realize I Just Wanna Make Love To You I Just Want to Make Love to You I Left My Heart in San Francisco I Like It Like That I Love You I Love You (The Smile You Smile) I Love You (The Smile You Smile) [Mono; Previously Unreleased Track; Version] I Need Your Kind Of Loving I Paid The Price I Shall Sing I Start Breaking Down I Wanna Go Home I Wanna Roo You I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) I Will Be There Id Love To Write Another Song If In Money We Trust If You Live If You Love Me If You Only Knew Ill Be Your Lover Too Ill Never Be Free I'll Take Care of You Ill Tell Me Ma Im Confessin Im Not Feeling It Anymore Im Tired Joey Boy In The Afternoon In The Days Before Rock N Roll In The Forest In The Garden In The Midnight In Tiburon Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1 Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 2 Into the Mystic It Fills You Up It Hurts To Want It So Bad It Must Be You It Once Was My Life It Takes A Worried Man Its All In The Game It's All Over Now Baby Blue Its All Right Ive Been Working Ivory Tower Jackie Wilson Said Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) Jambalaya Joe Harper Saturday Morning John Henry Joyous Sound Jump And Thump Just Ball Just Like Greta Keep It Simple Keep Mediocrity At Bay Kingdom Hall La Mambo Laughing In The Wind Let It Rhyme Let The Slave Let's Get Lost Lets Talk About Us Lifetimes Linden Arden Stole The Highlights Listen To The Lion Listen to the Lion/The Lion Speaks [Bonus Track] Little Village Lonely And Blue Lonely Avenue Look Behind The Hill Look Here Look What The Good People Done Lorna Lost John Love Should Come With A Warning Lover Come Back Lovers Prayer Madame George Madame Joy Magic Time Makin' Whoopee Man Has To Struggle Maries Wedding Mean Old World Meaning Of Loneliness Mechanical Bliss Meet Me In The Indian Summer Melancholia Memories Memory Lane Midnight Special Mighty Like A Rose Miss Otis Regrets Moody's Mood for Love Moondance Moonshine Whiskey More And More Move On Up Muleskinner Blues My Buckets Got A Hole In It My Lagan Love My Little Baby My Lonely Sad Eyes Mystic Eyes Mystic Of The East Naked In The Jungle Natalia New Biography New Buring Ground New Burying Ground News Nightclub No Religion No Thing No Trouble Livin No Way Pedro Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Nobody Really Knows Northern Muse Northern Muse (Solid Ground) Nose In Your Blow Not Supposed To Break Down Not Working For You Oh The Warm Feeling Old Black Joe Old Old Woodstock On Hyndford Street Once A Day Once In A Blue Moon One Irish Rover One More Time One Of These Days Only A Dream Only A Song Open The Door Open The Door (To Your Heart) Orangefield Ordinary Life Ordinary People Out In The Cold Again Outskirts Of Town Pagan Heart Pagan Streams Pay The Devil Perfect Fit Perfect Moment Philosophers Stone Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Playhouse Precious Time Professional Jealousy Purple Heather Quality Street Queen Of The Slipstream Raglan Road Railroad Bill Raincheck Rave On John Donne Real Gone Lover Really Dont Know Redwood Tree Reminds Me Of You Retreat And View Ride On Josephine Ring Worm River Of Time Ro Ro Rosey Rock and Roll Band Roll With The Punches Rolling Hills Route 66 Russian Roulette Sack O' Woe Sack OWoe Saint Dominics Preview Saint James Infirmary Santa Fe Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession Satisfied Savoy Hollywood Scream And Holler See Me Through See Me Through Part II Send Your Mind Sense of Wonder Shake And Roll Shake It Mable Shakin' All Over/Gloria Share Your Love With Me She Gives Me Religion She Moved Through The Fair She's A Baby Shes My Baby Shot Of Rhythm And Blues Showbusiness Singing The Blues Sittin On Top Of The World Slim Slow Slider Slim Slow Slider/I Start Breaking Down Snow In San Anselmo So Complicated So Quiet In Here Someone Like You Somerset Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Sometimes We Cry Song Of Being A Child Song Of Home Songwriter Soul Spanish Rose Spanish Steps Spare Me A Little Of Your Love Spirit Spirit Will Provide Star Of The County Down Start All Over Again Starting A New Life Steal My Heart Away Stepping Out Queen Stepping Out Queen Part II Stomp And Scream Stop Drinking Stormy Monday Stormy Monday / Lonely Avenue Stormy Monday / Lonely Avenue Stormy Monday/Lonely Avenue (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannonball Stranded Street Choir Street Theory Summertime In England Sweet Jannie Sweet Sixteen Sweet Thing Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta Take It Easy Baby Take It Where You Find It Take Me Back Take Your Hands Out Of My Pocket Talk Is Cheap T.B. Sheets Teardrops From My Eyes Tell Me Tell Me Something Tell Me What You Want Thanks For The Information Thats Entertainment Thats Entrainment Thats Life The Back Room The Ballad Of Jesse James The Beauty Of The Days Gone By The Big Royalty Check The Dead Girls Of London The Great Deception The Healing Game The Last Laugh The Lion Speaks The Lion This Time The Lonesome Road The Masters Eyes The Mystery The New Symphony Sid The Party's Over The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword The Philosophers Stone The Prophet Speaks The Smile You Smile The Street Only Knew Your Name The Way Young Lovers Do The Wobble There Stands The Glass There There Child These Dreams Of You They Can't Take That Away From Me They Sold Me Out Things Have Gone To Pieces Think Twice Before You Go Thirty Two This Has Got To Stop This Lion This Time This Love Of Mine This Weight Till I Gain Control Again Till We Get The Healing Done Tir Na Nog Too Late Too Long In Exile Too Many Myths Too Much Trouble Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral Tore Down A La Rimbaud Tore Down à la Rimbaud Transformation Troubadours Try For Sleep Tupelo Honey Turn on Your Love Light Twilight Zone Twist And Shake Unchained Melody Underlying Depression Up Your Mind Vanlose Stairway Venice U.S.A. Village Idiot Virgo Clowns Waiting Game Walk And Talk Want A Danish Warm Love Was Wasted Years Wavelength What Am I Living For? What Makes The Irish Heart Beat What Would I Do What Would I Do Without You Whats Wrong With This Picture? When Heart Is Open When That Evening Sun Goes Down When The Leaves Come Falling Down When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God? Whenever God Shines His Light Whenever God Shines His Light On Me Whinin Boy Moan Who Can I Turn To? Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Who Drove The Red Sports Car? Who Was That Masked Man Why Dont You Love Me Why Must I Always Explain? Wild Children Wild Night Wobble And Ball Wonderful Remark You Came Walking Down You Can Count On Me You Can Count on Me (To Do My Part) You Dont Know Me You Dont Pull No Punches But You Dont Push The River You Gotta Make It Through The World You Know What Theyre Writing About You Make Me Feel So Free You Move Me You Say France And Ill Whistle You Win Again Your Cheatin Heart Your Mind Is On Vacation Youre My Woman Youth Of 1000 Summers
From the Album 1. Some Peace Of Mind 2. If I Ever Needed Someone 3. Higher Than The World 4. Wild Honey 5. Whatever Happened To PJ Proby? 6. Carrying A Torch 7. The Eternal Kansas City 8. Streets Of Arklow 9. These Are The Days 10. Get On With The Show 11. Rough God Goes Riding 12. Fire In The Belly 13. Born To Sing 14. Irish Heartbeat 15. Real Real Gone 16. How Can A Poor Boy?
Other Songs 4% Pantomime A Foggy Day A New Kind Of Man A Sense Of Wonder A Town Called Paradise Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell Ain't Gonna Moan No More Aint Nothin You Can Do Ain't That Loving You Baby? Alabamy Bound Alan Watts Blues All Saints Day All The Bits All Work And No Play Allow Me Almost Independence Day Ancient Highway Ancient Of Days And It Stoned Me And the Healing Has Begun Angeliou Aryan Mist Asense Of Wonder Astral Weeks Astral Weeks/I Believe I've Transcended At The End Of The Day Automobile Blues Autumn Song Avalon Of The Heart Baby Please Dont Go Baby You Got What It Takes Back O Town Blues Back On The Corner Back On Top Back Street Affair Ball and Chain Ballerina Bayou Girl Be Thou My Vision Beautiful Obsession Beautiful Vision Before The World Was Made Behind The Ritual Bein Green Benediction Beside You Big Blue Diamonds Big Time Operators Bigtime Operators Bit By Bit Blow In Your Nose Blue Money Blue Suede Shoes Blues In The Night Boogie Chillen Brand New Day Bright Lights Big City Bright Side of the Road Bring It On Home To Me Broken Record Brown Eyed Girl Bulbs Burning Ground By His Grace Bye Bye Blackbird Cadillac Caledonia Soul Music Caledonia Swing Call Me Up In Dreamland Caravan Carrickfergus Carry On Regardless Celtic Excavation Celtic New Year Celtic Ray Celtic Spring Celtic Swing Centerpiece Centrepiece Checkin It Out Chick-A-Boom Chickee Coo Choppin Wood City Home Cleaning Windows Close Enough For Jazz Cold Wind In August Come Here My Love Come Running Comfort You Comfortably Numb Coney Island Connswater Contacting My Angel Contemplation Rose Country Fair Crazy Arms Crazy Face Crazy Jane On God Crazy Love Cry For Home Cul De Sac Cyprus Avenue Cyprus Avenue/You Came Walking Down Daring Night Dark Night Of The Soul Days Gone By Days Like This Dead Or Alive Did Ye Get Healed? Do It Domino Dont Change On Me Dont Go To Nightclubs Anymore Don't Look Back Don't Start Crying Now Dont Worry About A Thing Dont Worry About Tomorrow Dont You Make Me High Dont You Rock Me Daddio Down The Road Down To Earth Down to Joy Drivin Wheel Drumshanbo Hustle Dum Dum George Dweller On The Threshold Early In The Morning Educating Archie End Of The Land End Of The Rainbow Enlightenment Evening In June Evening Meditation Evening Shadow Evening Shadows Evening Train Every Time I See A River Everyone Everytime I See A River Fair Play Fame Fast Train Feedback Out On Highway 101 Flamingos Fly Foggy Mountain Top For Mr. Thomas Foreign Window Frankie and Johnny Freaky If You Got This Far Fridays Child Full Force Gale Georgia On My Mind Give Me A Kiss Give Me a Kiss (Just One Sweet Kiss) Give Me My Rapture Glad Tidings Gloria Go For Yourself Goin Down Geneva Goin' Down To Monte Carlo Goin To Chicago Going Down To Bangor Going Down To Monte Carlo Going Home Golden Autumn Day Goldfish Bowl Good Morning Blues Good Morning Little School Girl Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Goodbye Baby Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) Goodbye George Goodnight Irene Got To Go Back Got To Go Where the Love Is Green Mansions Grits Aint Groceries Gypsy Gypsy In My Soul Gypsy Queen Half As Much Hang On Groovy Hard Nose The Highway Haunts Of Ancient Peace Have I Told You Lately Have I Told You Lately That I Love You He Aint Give You None Heathrow Shuffle Heavy Connection Help Me Here Comes Dumb George Here Comes The Knight Here Comes The Night Hey Mr. DJ High Spirits High Summer Hold On George Holy Guardian Angel Hound Dog How Far From God How Long Has This Been Going On? Hungry for Your Love Hymns To The Silence I Believe Ive Transcended I Believe To My Soul I Can Only Give You Everything I Can Tell I Cant Stop Loving You I Dont Want Much I Forgot That Love Existed I Get a Kick Out of You I Have Finally Come To Realize I Just Wanna Make Love To You I Just Want to Make Love to You I Left My Heart in San Francisco I Like It Like That I Love You I Love You (The Smile You Smile) I Love You (The Smile You Smile) [Mono; Previously Unreleased Track; Version] I Need Your Kind Of Loving I Paid The Price I Shall Sing I Start Breaking Down I Wanna Go Home I Wanna Roo You I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) I Will Be There Id Love To Write Another Song If In Money We Trust If You Live If You Love Me If You Only Knew Ill Be Your Lover Too Ill Never Be Free I'll Take Care of You Ill Tell Me Ma Im Confessin Im Not Feeling It Anymore Im Tired Joey Boy In The Afternoon In The Days Before Rock N Roll In The Forest In The Garden In The Midnight In Tiburon Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1 Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 2 Into the Mystic It Fills You Up It Hurts To Want It So Bad It Must Be You It Once Was My Life It Takes A Worried Man Its All In The Game It's All Over Now Baby Blue Its All Right Ive Been Working Ivory Tower Jackie Wilson Said Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) Jambalaya Joe Harper Saturday Morning John Henry Joyous Sound Jump And Thump Just Ball Just Like Greta Keep It Simple Keep Mediocrity At Bay Kingdom Hall La Mambo Laughing In The Wind Let It Rhyme Let The Slave Let's Get Lost Lets Talk About Us Lifetimes Linden Arden Stole The Highlights Listen To The Lion Listen to the Lion/The Lion Speaks [Bonus Track] Little Village Lonely And Blue Lonely Avenue Look Behind The Hill Look Here Look What The Good People Done Lorna Lost John Love Should Come With A Warning Lover Come Back Lovers Prayer Madame George Madame Joy Magic Time Makin' Whoopee Man Has To Struggle Maries Wedding Mean Old World Meaning Of Loneliness Mechanical Bliss Meet Me In The Indian Summer Melancholia Memories Memory Lane Midnight Special Mighty Like A Rose Miss Otis Regrets Moody's Mood for Love Moondance Moonshine Whiskey More And More Move On Up Muleskinner Blues My Buckets Got A Hole In It My Lagan Love My Little Baby My Lonely Sad Eyes Mystic Eyes Mystic Of The East Naked In The Jungle Natalia New Biography New Buring Ground New Burying Ground News Nightclub No Religion No Thing No Trouble Livin No Way Pedro Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Nobody Really Knows Northern Muse Northern Muse (Solid Ground) Nose In Your Blow Not Supposed To Break Down Not Working For You Oh The Warm Feeling Old Black Joe Old Old Woodstock On Hyndford Street Once A Day Once In A Blue Moon One Irish Rover One More Time One Of These Days Only A Dream Only A Song Open The Door Open The Door (To Your Heart) Orangefield Ordinary Life Ordinary People Out In The Cold Again Outskirts Of Town Pagan Heart Pagan Streams Pay The Devil Perfect Fit Perfect Moment Philosophers Stone Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Playhouse Precious Time Professional Jealousy Purple Heather Quality Street Queen Of The Slipstream Raglan Road Railroad Bill Raincheck Rave On John Donne Real Gone Lover Really Dont Know Redwood Tree Reminds Me Of You Retreat And View Ride On Josephine Ring Worm River Of Time Ro Ro Rosey Rock and Roll Band Roll With The Punches Rolling Hills Route 66 Russian Roulette Sack O' Woe Sack OWoe Saint Dominics Preview Saint James Infirmary Santa Fe Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession Satisfied Savoy Hollywood Scream And Holler See Me Through See Me Through Part II Send Your Mind Sense of Wonder Shake And Roll Shake It Mable Shakin' All Over/Gloria Share Your Love With Me She Gives Me Religion She Moved Through The Fair She's A Baby Shes My Baby Shot Of Rhythm And Blues Showbusiness Singing The Blues Sittin On Top Of The World Slim Slow Slider Slim Slow Slider/I Start Breaking Down Snow In San Anselmo So Complicated So Quiet In Here Someone Like You Somerset Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Sometimes We Cry Song Of Being A Child Song Of Home Songwriter Soul Spanish Rose Spanish Steps Spare Me A Little Of Your Love Spirit Spirit Will Provide Star Of The County Down Start All Over Again Starting A New Life Steal My Heart Away Stepping Out Queen Stepping Out Queen Part II Stomp And Scream Stop Drinking Stormy Monday Stormy Monday / Lonely Avenue Stormy Monday / Lonely Avenue Stormy Monday/Lonely Avenue (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannonball Stranded Street Choir Street Theory Summertime In England Sweet Jannie Sweet Sixteen Sweet Thing Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta Take It Easy Baby Take It Where You Find It Take Me Back Take Your Hands Out Of My Pocket Talk Is Cheap T.B. Sheets Teardrops From My Eyes Tell Me Tell Me Something Tell Me What You Want Thanks For The Information Thats Entertainment Thats Entrainment Thats Life The Back Room The Ballad Of Jesse James The Beauty Of The Days Gone By The Big Royalty Check The Dead Girls Of London The Great Deception The Healing Game The Last Laugh The Lion Speaks The Lion This Time The Lonesome Road The Masters Eyes The Mystery The New Symphony Sid The Party's Over The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword The Philosophers Stone The Prophet Speaks The Smile You Smile The Street Only Knew Your Name The Way Young Lovers Do The Wobble There Stands The Glass There There Child These Dreams Of You They Can't Take That Away From Me They Sold Me Out Things Have Gone To Pieces Think Twice Before You Go Thirty Two This Has Got To Stop This Lion This Time This Love Of Mine This Weight Till I Gain Control Again Till We Get The Healing Done Tir Na Nog Too Late Too Long In Exile Too Many Myths Too Much Trouble Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral Tore Down A La Rimbaud Tore Down à la Rimbaud Transformation Troubadours Try For Sleep Tupelo Honey Turn on Your Love Light Twilight Zone Twist And Shake Unchained Melody Underlying Depression Up Your Mind Vanlose Stairway Venice U.S.A. Village Idiot Virgo Clowns Waiting Game Walk And Talk Want A Danish Warm Love Was Wasted Years Wavelength What Am I Living For? What Makes The Irish Heart Beat What Would I Do What Would I Do Without You Whats Wrong With This Picture? When Heart Is Open When That Evening Sun Goes Down When The Leaves Come Falling Down When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God? Whenever God Shines His Light Whenever God Shines His Light On Me Whinin Boy Moan Who Can I Turn To? Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Who Drove The Red Sports Car? Who Was That Masked Man Why Dont You Love Me Why Must I Always Explain? Wild Children Wild Night Wobble And Ball Wonderful Remark You Came Walking Down You Can Count On Me You Can Count on Me (To Do My Part) You Dont Know Me You Dont Pull No Punches But You Dont Push The River You Gotta Make It Through The World You Know What Theyre Writing About You Make Me Feel So Free You Move Me You Say France And Ill Whistle You Win Again Your Cheatin Heart Your Mind Is On Vacation Youre My Woman Youth Of 1000 Summers
George Ivan "Van" Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.
Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when,
as a teenager in the late 1950s.
He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band
Them.
-Wikipedia
Birth Name: George Ivan MorrisonAlso Known As: Van the Man
The Belfast Cowboy
Born: August 31st, 1945 (age 78)
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Genre(s): Rock, blues, rhythm and blues, folk, blue-eyed soul, Celtic, rock and roll, jazz, pop, soft rock, country, skiffle, gospel
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, harmonica, saxophones, keyboards, drums, tambourine, ukulele
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, musician
Active From: 1958present
Associated Acts: Them Mark Knopfler
Did You Know:
Van was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame 2003
He received an honorary degree as a doctor of music from Queen's University in 2001
Awards:
1993
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Quotes:
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing."
"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."