Friends of Van Morrison have said he is the WB Yeats of the music world after he was honoured by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth for services to the industry. Do you know any people who have come from Belfast? The scholar, dreamer, dancer and one of the few originals in rock parses out his lyrics and blues.

Were you reading his books then? Peter Van Hooke is a Dutch drummer I worked with on an American tour. At that moment I was fiddling around with the radio – I wanted to hear some music – and I tuned in this station and “Rock Island Line” by Leadbelly came on.

C.S. The way they did that was ridiculous, I’d never heard anything like it . My mind changes too much. . . Who wants to package nobody? The energy, the way he was singing, the guitar – it was the vibe of the whole thing.

A lot of bands. You don’t ask me: “Did you ever sit up in the Mourne Mountains with a picnic lunch?”. . I was just looking at things, getting my energy together, doing things I like to do, and just living as if I were nobody instead of somebody. How do you see it right now? What about the audience watching the movie, your audience? It means what it means now. And that’s really what I wanted to do, when I started in this game – play dance music. I see people I used to grow up with, people I played with in bands, and it brings back into perspective what you’re doing. I don’t really know exactly what I’m doing yet. . He was telling you something. But I never read that much of anything in the old days. And I remember I was in Belgium, sitting in my hotel room looking out the window, and I was thinking, “This isn’t worth it, man.” I’d done two American and two European tours in the 1973-74 period.

And the question that’s asked in the song is: what have they learned? Written By Kenny Craddock, Van Morrison & William Butler Yeats. . Isn’t everybody? We all went through that – it’s just stages, phases. Yeah, but I’m doing it in a different way – I’m dealing with it and relating to it in a different way. You get this thing coming through – it comes through in different spaces and times, and you don’t really know what it is. Was the time between 1974 and now a kind of fertile void for you, or did you just flip out? You avoid that image, though. Morrison isn’t name-dropping, only sharing the literary heroes who inspired him. . Why are you going on this tour now? There’s some sensibility or physical and spiritual being putting all this together, and it sounds like you. For me, I realized that when I became twenty-eight or twenty-nine I’d lived out a certain thing, and that was the dream of the kid. “Lit Up Inside” shows that Van Morrison tells stories, creates moods and boasts the kind of romantic imagination that soars in the work of the poets he mentions in this volume, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. I own a small house and have a small income, and that’s it. When you’re really into playing music, the words become irrelevant because you’re in that space.

I framed it and put it up on the wall, and I’ve had it on the wall everywhere I’ve been. I’m Irish and a British subject. He said: “I know who you are,” and in a very subtle way laid a thing on me. I’m not a good business venture. Maybe that’s what rock & roll is all about.

But nowadays I go between two places: the United States for recording, working and organizing, and Ireland – Belfast and the South – for inspiration and composing. You have a lot of songs about wild nights calling.

An album like ‘Astral Weeks’ is still pretty alive, and when I listen to it now it seems to be about a series of journeys: a journey out of the body [“Astral Weeks”]; a journey from childhood to adulthood [“Madame George”]; a journey into a moment of the past [“Cypress Avenue”]; a journey of a young boy from a back street, through fog and rain onto a highway [“Beside You”]. On first release, original pressings had to be recalled when the W. B. Yeats estate refused to allow Morrison's musical version of the poem "Crazy Jane on God" to be included, as they believed his poems should only be set to classical music.

Right. Image is a definite problem.

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