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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGeorge Ivan "Van" Morrison knighted
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/van-morrison-awarded-honorary-knighthood/2015/06/13/bd744bb8-11b3-11e5-a0fe-dccfea4653ee_story.htmlIt couldn't happen to a better guy.
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George Ivan "Van" Morrison knighted (Original Post)
panader0
Jun 2015
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)1. Cool!
And Kevin Spacey too!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)2. Congratulations to him
It seems like yesterday that my band played the tunes he made famous like Baby Please Don't Go, Here Comes The Night, and the tune written by him that every single garage band and attic band in the mid 1960s all across America played in its song list, Gloria.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)3. He has an incredible body of work that stands up well over time.
All these years later his records still sound great.
nastynaven
(68 posts)4. really?
i always thought he was american.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. I had a boss who once asked the office "Is Van Morrison Irish?"
This and other questions like "What's a calico?", "What's a tabby?", and "What's osteoporosis?" led us to affectionately dub him "the Little Dunce" (he's about 5'6" .
clarice
(5,504 posts)5. Love Van....but....
I always thought that the whole "Knighted" thing was just a way for the British throne to say,
"Hey ____ thanks for staying in England and not moving somewhere else, even though our tax rate is outrageous."