News Summary

• Van Morrison was born in Northern Ireland in 1945.
• He began playing at an early age and graduated to the scene via the ranks of the rock band Them.
• In 1967, Morrison began his solo career.
• Morrison fans will instantly recall his majestic 1974 album, Veedon Fleece.
• The singer had been living in the USA for seven years at that time and wrote the songs for that record during a healing trip back to Ireland.
• In a 2019 interview with Ireland's RTE, the singer recalled : "The teacher asked me, and I said I wanted to be a vet.
• I had a dog, and it just came from that really"