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Artist: Peter Childs
CatNo: 9781789522419
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Peter Childs Van Morrison in the 1970s Book Van Morrison

After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music, Van Morrison.

During the decade, Morrison forged a rich artistic catalogue that remains vital in the present day. Beginning with the smash hit Moondance in 1970, his output in the decade continued through Tupelo Honey via Hard Nose the Highway to 1979’s Into the Music. By the end of the decade, he was again looking to Europe to recast his music for another half-century in the business, but throughout most of the 1970s, his songs centred on America as he created the foundation of his astonishing musical legacy.

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Sequestered in rural Gloucestershire, UK, Peter Childs is starting his seventh decade. Having devoted a life to teaching English and professing about literature, he is the author or editor of dozens of previous books including The Twentieth Century in Poetry and the Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture. Like many of his peers, he has always found music the purest source of shared pleasure and the true solace of the inner life of the soul. Unwilling to dance about architecture, he is delighted now to be writing about the records he loves.

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