Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus | Book review

Greil Marcus offers a new perspective on a star, says Rosie SwashAny reader hoping for a comprehensive history of the half a century of Van Morrison's career so far will be sorely disappointed by Listening to Van Morrison. "It becomes plain that any summing up of Morrison's work would be a fraud," writes Greil Marcus in the introduction, as firm an expression of what not to expect from his book as if he had given it the subtitle: "This is not a biography". Nor will you learn too much about Morri...

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