Van Morrison: The Prophet Speaks (Caroline International)
Stevie Chick, Metro, 4 December 2018
NOVEMBER MARKED the 50th anniversary of Van Morrison's masterpiece, Astral Weeks, but for the longest time, the artist formerly known as Van The Man might better have been named Van The Man Who's Been Phoning It In For At Least A Decade Or So. Which makes this late-career return-to-form so remarkable, indeed verging on the miraculous.
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