Van Morrison: Common One
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1980
ANYONE WHO CAN make the phrase "William Blake and the eternals" sound like the evocation of a metaphysical doo-wop group, as Van Morrison did on Veedon Fleece, is a conjurer of special stripe.
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