Can You Feel the Silence?: Van Morrison: A New Biography

This groundbreaking biography of a brilliant but disturbed performer explores the paradox of the man and the artist. Based on more than 100 interviews this intelligent profile explores Morrisons roots; the hard times he went through in London New York and Boston; the making of his seminal albums such as Moondance and Astral Weeks; and the disastrous business arrangements that left Morrison hungry and penniless while his songs were topping the charts. Detailed are the breakdown of Morrisons marriage the creative drought that followed and his triumphant reemergence. In addition this biography attempts to explain the forbidding aspects of Morrisons persona such as paranoia hard drinking misanthropy as well as why in the words of his onetime singing partner Linda Gail Lewis Morrisons music brings happiness to other people not him. Also included is a Van Morrision sessionography that spans 1964 to 2001.