![]() A hugely influential artist who was in turn inspired by Ray Charles and Lonnie Donegan, Morrison has earned a reputation as a grumpy old man and has zero tolerance for showbiz frivolity. ![]() Morrison, 63, has spent his entire career trying to dodge "all the rest of it," in the process becoming one of rock's most unknowable figures. I did not bargain for all the rest of it." I just wanted to be a songwriter and a singer. "I am not one who has ever taken well to fame and what that attracts. "I would have quit the business had that happened," he said in an e-mail interview. If "Astral Weeks" had generated the sales commensurate with its eventual stellar status and transformed him into a huge pop star, Morrison is in no doubt about his reaction. Undaunted by the initial commercial setback, the Irish soul singer says he "just moved on" to his next project: The 1970 album "Moondance" whose title track is one of his best-known songs. or British pop charts when it came out in 1968 but is now regarded as one of the greatest musical works of the rock era and is generating new interest more than 40 years since its release. The album in question is his second solo release, "Astral Weeks," which failed to crack the U.S. Van Morrison hates the fame game so much that he would have abandoned his music career 40 years ago if one of his early albums had made him a superstar.
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