{"title":"Van Morrison","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"van-morrison-keep-er-lit","title":"Van Morrison: Keep 'Er Lit (Selected Lyrics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKeep 'Er Lit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVan Morrison's collected lyrics\u003c\/span\u003e containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and with others. Then there are the songs of memory and of childhood; songs about the natural world and about the perspectives it can provide on time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, \"The Bard of Belfast\".'\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536430129410,"sku":"BK-FAF-VMKEL-001-D","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_1125_f0d193a6-8aab-4088-a2de-16ca738c5efe.jpg?v=1790073518"},{"product_id":"van-morrison-in-the-1970s-decades-series","title":"Van Morrison in the 1970s (Decades)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eDecades\u003c\/em\u003e series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAfter the singularity of \u003cem\u003eAstral Weeks\u003c\/em\u003e in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was one of the music legends who defined the decade, with every album bringing out different aspects to Morrison’s vast musical spectrum. His story in the 1970s is a chronicle of a Belfast artist coming to terms with the voice, the call, the dream of America. The decade saw Morrison work through the promise of the land of the blues and jazz, westerns and railroads, big cities and backwoods. It also saw his own spiritual quest and the reimagining of a nordic North European heritage and Caledonian Irish roots alongside the realisation of emigration and exile. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMorrison forged a rich and complex artistic catalogue that continues down the years to the present day. Beginning with smash hit \u003cem\u003eMoondance\u003c\/em\u003e in 1970, his output in the decade continued through \u003cem\u003eTupelo Honey\u003c\/em\u003e via \u003cem\u003eHard Nose the Highway\u003c\/em\u003e to 1979’s \u003cem\u003eInto the Music\u003c\/em\u003e. By the end of the 1970s, he was again using Europe to recast his music and imagination for another half century in the business, but throughout most of the decade his songs centred on America as he created the foundation of an unparalleled legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sonicbond Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46025061138690,"sku":"BK-SON-VMD-001-O","price":6.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_9282_32278e1e-e914-47b9-b74e-860965702fad.jpg?v=1788437612"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/van-morrison.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}