

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.
