Across from us are a group of fans who have travelled from far and wide to see him perform where it all began. Today we sit in the lounge of the Culloden hotel, just outside the city on the shores of Belfast Lough, overlooking its lush grounds. This only adds to the sense that Belfast is a magical place of wonder and folklore illuminated by Van Morrison. Travellers visiting Belfast to see the singer perform in a cabaret club environment at the Europa Hotel, for example, will routinely hit the Van Morrison Trail around the city and visit the many sites associated with the man and his music. His songs have created a world submerged in as much myth and legend as the Titanic. There is,of course, the Van Morrison that exists in wider imagination. There’s a lot of mythology but you just do it, it’s not an analytical thing. When you start out it is but you soon get over all that in a couple of years so to me now it’s nothing special. Van Morrison’s response to this suggestion when we sit down face to face is typically pragmatic: “When you’ve been doing it a long time it’s nothing special. FIVE albums released in just over two years is a notable output for any artist but for Ireland’s greatest living singer-songwriter to be releasing this amount of work at 73 is considerable.
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