Van Morrison BBC Interview 2001. 

I can't believe this was over twenty years ago and he's still going strong today.

A mixture of folk and jazz, wrote most of my songs in Belfast. Impressions, I knew, records came out. Independent company from the frying pan to fire. Critical acclaimed word of mind.

I would love to actually meet van . I'm going to the Albert Hall to see him in concert. Loved him since he was in Them. Still love him today

Thank God that Van Morrison's light could not be hidden under a bushel. It is hard to hear how he like so many others were taken advantage of (well I am going to called it ripped off). While their energy and heart was being put into the beauty their work produced, some were in wait to unfairly take advantage of it. As far as Mr. Morrison saying he did not consider Brown Eyed Girl his best, the people who fell head over heels for it and still do, had yet to see that was just a small example of the talent buried within and yet to come. Yes, thank you for the years of sheer beauty and joy your music gives us. For it greatly moves us. Dawn

A poetic and musical genius.

52:02 Van says "I think there was probably more there than we needed... Maybe I said too much!" with a nervous chuckle. My God is he a classic introvert.

GOAT! Rave on Van! Much love. Much respect! 💚🎶❤️

Anyone else feel really anxious watching this lol?

When Wavelength hit my ears, Kingdom Hall opened, Natalia, and every song reverberated to my essence, not necessarily Radio Hits or whatever.

How funny, Van Morrison "can't relate to the songs on the Moondance album anymore" and so many of us can't imagine our past without that music. Actually I do understand that from his point of view it makes sense- he created it, we just found it and and associate it with our own experience.

He seems to be live that Irish lifestyle of fighting the System, yet, also, thriving with it. Grounded, Foundational, and somewhat so clear, gripping, and harmonizing with the Best of them.

❤Van Morrison my all time favorite artist musician he is so multi talented ❤ Enlightenment is absolutely best song ever ❤Thank you Sir Van Morrison ❤

A legend.

He is a genius:) Great interview. Going to share this a lot.

Love the MAN❤

Oddly enough I find Van Morrison so interesting, he has a unique and personal way of telling his story, the first Van Morrison Album I heard from a friend's styling Stereo, was not only high fidelity, his Voice, the music was an anchor I rose to.

Beautiful lighting on Van ✨

Great interview from a man that is a true Irish poetical genius.

One of the best interviews with V M I have heard.

He does keep moving on.. A genius in progress, for sure. ❤

Met his father in fairfax music store. He was a very nice man.

Thank you so very much for posting this! It’s amazing for a true Vanantic like myself. Love the Man. SO INTERESTING. The humble genius.😇❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

What a fantastic interview! Thanks for making it available.

"SOMEONE LIKE YOU" IS ONE OF MY VAN MORRISON FAVORITES!, FROM THEM I LIKE "GLORIA, "IT'S ALL OVER NOW , BABY BLUE" -- VAN MORRISON IS A GREAT SONG WRITER AND SINGER... ! I LOVE HIS LYRICS !

20:19 It's remarkable how often artists got the most success with songs that they (initially) didn't think much of (at all), or even had difficulty with. However, these became the kind of signature songs that helped to build a career on.

Thank you for this! Rock on Van. I love you man.🤘😎🤘

Extraordinary moment in this interview around 43:00 where Van discusses his voice change over the years. I've never heard him describe or make recognition that his vocals have changed before now.

This is flipping great to hear, Van talking about his music life, It is a great shame that the excellent BBC did not get a better mike on Van, his voice is low and muffled and yet the interview is crystal clear

Love VAN Vegas 2023 , he is awesome

Brilliant interview on Van the Man

I heard the Leadbelly influence at last on an old LP I’d got at St George’s Market. He sang a children’s song and there was something very distinct in his rhythmic, melodic, free time phrasing. Even better than the real thing…

excellent conversation

Unexpectedly informative interview. Thanks for this!

Great interview, thanks for sharing.

I picture sitting and conversating with Van "In a restaurant 'cross a table top Looking into a glass of wine Whispering in the evening breeze Green leaves glistening eucalyptus trees Can you hear them ... Can You FEEL them ....maybe not even saying a word. And no words would describe the joy his music has brought to my life. I send good thoughts and feelings of happiness to him often. Thank you Van

I love his older voice!

It’s no wonder Van is so cranky. Same questions again and again. I’d rather hear him talk about his favorite food, or what he listens to in the car on road trips, or the artist he’s most likely to put on the stereo when he wants to make out.

I don't understand why people say he's a grumpy old man, he smiled a lot in this interview..

Great interview

I'm not sure if Van Morrison knows what a Musical Genius he is? Interesting that he has one of the most prolific Catalog of Music Singer/Songwriter our generation. He is an enigma and always moving on. .I think that explains it. You can't take it personal, just how he rolls.

Terrible how Van and all those other musicians were ripped off in the sixties by those con artists. The mafia were involved in the music biz back then. He never gave up though and became one of the immortals.

Very good interviewer. It strikes me that Van Morrison wouldn't have been out of place in a Martin Scorcese film, or Eastenders.

They picked up where I was at. Inext album of xxxxxxxxxxxxx

2001, what's to be nervous of ?. Mastro, first single, help me stands out, lonesome cavern, playing guitar, he was playing the 12 string then learning music before that, Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Williams, a friend had records. It wasn't a , pre scufal, when others things came in. I was still playing my father's records. Emotional delivery. I can't explain it intellectually. Not right away it was later till the 70s then I was in a four a piece for , way before. The mamor.. don't start crying now, extremely hard. Didn't get paid when we should have. Appears for awhile. When in Germany, till, before that five years. You could say some of them were great. The last five years songs. Seventies, I put up made sense, a grip, a scripts, I just wanted to sing, just sing this song. Went to the states, made another record, contract, demo here comes the night. ? For , hit record, didn't pay me, nightmare, did not appear. Jackel as nd Hyde. Sony compilation promotion, that was then, that was not my repertoire, I needed that then, didn't get it. Astral weeks, came to light cause

You re so Serons i adoré you love

I notice the WEF oops I mean BBC didnt interview him after or during his tracks like No More Lockdown. Rave on indeed Van 👍

I love it !! Lol

looks like Van was about to Explode, Chill out Van .

phew, that was hard work for the interviewer !

This one tells the truth.. and slept in the streets in his early days

Can you meet me in the summertime in England, can you meet me❤

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Van is almost human here!

If you don t love the clash that just mean i would rathet not i m so bord with you sa

Kind of a dry interview but informative. Interviewers get stuck in an artists past to much. Morrison, "some of Them were great records for then, but that's were it ends for me". Talking about the 1960's and here it's 2001. He wrote "Gloria" and considers songs he's written in the past five years even better. I get that. I write poetry. You write a poem and move on. It being better than the last poem you wrote isn't always the goal, but that maybe you're growing in how you write. I don't imagine it's much different for a Songwriter. Writing is a life long endeavor always striving for better written material. An example, "When the Leaves Come Falling Down" from his 1998 "Back on Top" Album. It's as well written as "Gloria" from 1964, IMO.

Sorry . Necessito subtitols català o castellà.

True grit, Van Morrison, Lawsuits to get out the red, enough said, take it out the head, sorry my own trials eluded the Suits( Lawsuits) seemed too cliche, it is sorry state of affairs, explanations do follow suit, ready for something new, yet leaving amazing Tracks, unwilling to live on the past, the rolling stone gathers no moss, yet mossy rocks signify Black Swifts to this Ancient and Old Growth Forests fan, do the research, personally seeing a black swift in a full dive was extraordinary!

If you re à genius i m too i don t love you anémone funky you exept Thatcher would you unknown

Very talented man; genius. But the personality of a box of hair when not performing. This was like watching paint dry.

I canbrestore his youthful looks . He will feel forty years younger . What medical does to these musicians is gross.

Try this on the style life for buzz the sxinging neck breakers i will break ever9ything you re not rock and roll

I think everyone is sick of hearing how Van was taken advantage of. It's a goddam obsession with him. A sixty year long obsession. Let it fukking go Van.