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Spiky, sticky, silly: interviewing Van Morrison

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

Q: ‘How would you define transcendence?’
A: ‘Well, how would you define it?’

I interviewed Van Morrison last year. (I’m fine now, thanks.) While the exercise wasn’t quite the near-death experience of industry legend — he was polite and accommodating, if not always exactly forthcoming — it got sticky at times, as the above exchange illustrates.

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Van Morrison is touring Britain this autumn with live shows at Newcastle Racecourse, Electric Ballroom and the London Palladium.

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