The Immortal Jukebox » Van Morrison

You’ve either got it or you haven’t. Presence. Some things you just can’t buy. Presence. Coaches and Gurus and Snake Oil salesmen will portentously promise to reveal the secret to you. Bett...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2019/08/27/van-morrison-mark-knopfler-last-laugh-happy-birthday-van/

Van Morrison is a Dweller on The Threshold. An Everyday Mystic. So am I  – and so are you. Except he holds theses titles in Capital Letters while ours are lower case. That’s because through ...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/10/24/van-morrison-and-it-stoned-me/

My son and I – The Two Toms – are about to set out on a trip, actually a Pilgrimage to the Far North. To God haunted Northumbria. The land of Celtic saints and the Roman Wall. The land of …...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/07/04/van-morrison-coney-island/

Just before Christmas I was contacted, out of the blue, by Nessy Mon (Vanessa Monaghan) who hosts a radio show for the Irish National Broadcaster RTE. Nessy’s show is on RTE2XM and is called, �...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/01/08/immortal-jukebox-on-the-radio/

Mid October. The Sun rises at about 7 O’clock in this part of the South Downs. It is my habit, ingrained from youth, to start my day at about 5 O’ Clock. So, I have two hours of the mourning ...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/10/20/van-morrison-brand-new-day/

‘There are guides and spirits all along the way who will befriend us’ Guides and Spirits. We all need them. Pilgrims all, we need Way Markers reassuring us that there is indeed a Way and that...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/08/31/happy-birthday-van-morrison-checkin-it-out-an-immortal-jukebox-van-fest/

Let’s remind ourselves what’s A1 on The Immortal Jukebox and why! Some songs have a brutally simple primal perfection. Usually these songs are recorded at the very beginning of an artists car...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/08/15/van-morrison-gloria-gloria-gloria-gloria/

When I launched The Immortal Jukebox in March 2014 I had, as they say, no expectations. I just knew that it was time to find out if I could think on the page with the same fluency I could talk �...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/08/02/immortal-jukebox-the-story-so-far-with-some-vintage-van-morrison-as-a-bonus/

Spring is here. Is erraigh anseo. As dawn breaks I set off for my morning run through the woods. No more the sharp sting of winter winds. No. Now the daffodils and bluebells are in bloom and thro...

https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/03/30/van-morrison-mr-acker-bilk-ray-gelato-buona-sera-signorina-la-primavera-e-qui/

* * * Often, when we tell the story of our own life, to ourselves, or to others, the narrative teems with incident. An action movie filled with high drama. Now, reflecting on my own life I have c...

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