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Today being my birthday, I'm reminded of getting a Van Morrison "best of/greatest hits" album many years ago as a birthday present. The record, which I think was a double-LP but might be misremembering, had not a single photograph and I don't think it had any liner notes beyond songwriter credits, date of release, and album titles that each track was lifted from. It was a real bargain-basement job, but obviously it's what's in the record grooves that matters. Being pre-Internet, I had no way to learn more about this Van Morrison character at the time. So, judging from the sound of "Domino," "Moondance," "Warm Love," etc., I always figured he was some type of Al Green-George Benson-Jackie Wilson sort of black, American, jazzy soul guy from somewhere like Memphis. I assumed he looked something like so:
It wasn't until I got Astral Weeks, years later, that I got a glimpse of him. I never expected a belligerent, porcine dwarf from Ulster! WTF (as the kids say)?
So...anybody you had a totally incorrect impression of?
It wasn't until I got Astral Weeks, years later, that I got a glimpse of him. I never expected a belligerent, porcine dwarf from Ulster! WTF (as the kids say)?
So...anybody you had a totally incorrect impression of?
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