Album Review: Van Morrison – Born to Sing: No Plan B
An album of vitriol 50 years in the making.
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Audiography: Episode 057: “Jimmy Cliff”
Audio reviews for deadmau5, Van Morrison, and Unnatural Helpers.
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Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B (album stream)
Born to Sing: No Plan B is the 34th studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. It will be released on 2 October 2012 on Blue Note Records.R...
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Sleeve notes: Chris Brown, Azealia Banks, Neil Young
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. Chris Brown's albums sabotaged with protest stickersIn the wake of the outcry ov...
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Old music: Van Morrison and Cliff Richard – Whenever God Shines His Light
Van the Man and pious old Cliff? It shouldn't work, but somehow this unlikely pairing creates peace, unity and harmony Reading on mobile? Watch hereI'm not religious, so ...
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Ray Russell – review
Pizza Express, LondonSince Ray Russell has spent plenty of the past three decades quietly composing award-winning TV soundtracks and shaping his expressive guitar sound t...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal - Maggie Gyllenhaal's Baby Named After Patti Smith's Gloria
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal named her newborn daughter Gloria after falling in love with rocker Patti Smiths rendition of the Van Morrison classic The Dark Knight star and ...
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Festivals guide 2012 listings: jazz, blues, funk and soul festivals
If soulful stuff is what you're after, here are the best jazz fests taking place this summer up and down the countryBluesFestWhen 26 June-6 JulyWhere Various venues in Lo...
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Van Morrison Headlines Festival
*Van Morrison* (http://www.vanmorrison.com) will headline the Green Man Festival (http://www.greenman.net) in Wales this year.
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Michael Kiwanuka: Home Again – review
Whether it was intended that way or not, Michael Kiwanuka's debut ticks a lot of the boxes required for pop success in 2012If such a thing as a racing certainty still exi...
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R.I.P. Ronnie Montrose
The shred-master guitarist Ronnie Montrose, the former leader of the band Montrose and one of the great technical wizards from the early days of hard rock, died on Saturd...
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Ronnie Montrose, Van Morrison Guitarist, Dies Aged 64
The guitarist RONNIE MONTROSE has sadly died at the age of 64 his booking agent Jim Douglas confirming that the virtuoso had passed away at his home in California on Sund...
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Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll
As this column ends, I thought it appropriate to talk about rock's profound sense of beginning – its power and possibility, its surging promiseThis column began fiv...
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Old music: Van Morrison – Caravan
A positively cherubic Van Morrison struts like a rooster, celebrating the free world of the radioIt's a "joyous shot at how things ought to be" – getting together, ...
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