John McCarthy explores how Van Morrison’s music has influenced people’s lives and Brian Keenan takes John on a tour of Van’s home city of Belfast.

The 79-year-old is almost a folkloric figure at this point, a curmudgeon of such bizarre and specific idiosyncrasies that ...

Unwillingly dubbed Angry Young Van by his label and quickly losing most of his Belfast bandmates, Morrison’s disillusionment with the music business set in early. As Them disintegrated ...