Speaking in Tounges: The Songs of Van Morrison

Van Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the history of popular music. For forty years his unique synthesis of soul, blues and jazz with Irish fold song and Protestant hymnody has shaped an impressive body or work. Martin Buzacott consider the themes and motifs that repeat throughout the singer's career and they examain, album by album, how MOrrison uses these as a form of musical and lyrical shorthand in his work.