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<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoP4gTGHkByvWcNiXLSO0zaUKm2dayQDfkIxRS0c-i8zvwO5k3Si6xvxG75LzU-HQF8xbv2dD1RAxgYESOut1PS2XjmHChOXtA6PGdDFKoq-mYGJmttmzWQ2m8EubEU9kazwHUNIzkFJUWxs0e_qxrNY0cqOdzYqSs4p1NcJiE4JzEEluLwLngUYC4A4/s800/bbc02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoP4gTGHkByvWcNiXLSO0zaUKm2dayQDfkIxRS0c-i8zvwO5k3Si6xvxG75LzU-HQF8xbv2dD1RAxgYESOut1PS2XjmHChOXtA6PGdDFKoq-mYGJmttmzWQ2m8EubEU9kazwHUNIzkFJUWxs0e_qxrNY0cqOdzYqSs4p1NcJiE4JzEEluLwLngUYC4A4/s320/bbc02.jpg" width="320"/></a></div>When I posted Van Morrison's "BBC Sessions, Volume 1," I commented that it was a shame Morrison hardly ever performed for the BBC in 1980s. Musical associate MZ saw that comment, and sent me some stuff. Based mostly on that, I was able to put together this album of BBC sessions.<p></p><p>"Sense of Wonder" is from an appearance on the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1984. "In the Garden" is from another BBC TV show in 1986. </p><p>The next four songs come from a BBC TV special about Morrison called "One Irish Rover." It collected a bunch of different performances. One of them featured Van Morrison and Bob Dylan in 1989 singing just as a duo in Athens, Greece, on a hill overlooking the Acropolis. It's great to have these two musical giants collaborate, but to be honest it generally seemed like Dylan was winging it and didn't know Morrison's songs that well. But he did play some nice harmonica, and he sang more assertively on "One Irish Rover." The last of those four songs, "And It Stoned Me," was from the same session, but wasn't actually included in the "One Irish Rover" show. (You can find YouTube videos of all four songs, if you're interested in seeing and not just hearing them.)</p><p>"Whenever God Shines His Light" is from the BBC TV show "Top of the Pops," in 1989. Most appearances on that show are lipsynced, but not this one. It's a duet of Morrison and Cliff Richard, the same as on Morrison's 1989 studio album "Avalon Sunset." The next two songs, "Avalon of the Heart" and "So Quiet in Here" are from an appearance on the "Late Show," another BBC TV show, in 1990. Finally, the last two songs are from the show "Later... with Jools Holland" in 1995.</p><p>Everything here is unreleased on audio format, though the "One Irish Rover" show has been released on video. For the songs with cheering studio audiences, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the cheering. "Whenever God Shines His Light" has "[Edit]" in the title because the first few seconds were missing. I fixed that by patching in some music from later in the song. </p><p>This album is 43 minutes long.<br/></p><p>01 Sense of Wonder (Van Morrison)<br/>02 In the Garden (Van Morrison)<br/>03 Crazy Love (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)<br/>04 Foreign Window (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)<br/>05 One Irish Rover (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)<br/>06 And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)<br/>07 Whenever God Shines His Light [Edit] (Van Morrison &amp; Cliff Richard)<br/>08 Avalon of the Heart (Van Morrison)<br/>09 So Quiet in Here (Van Morrison)<br/>10 Don't Worry about a Thing (Van Morrison)<br/>11 That's Life (Van Morrison) <br/></p><p><a href="https://pixeldrain.com/u/gfJA3oVS">https://pixeldrain.com/u/gfJA3oVS</a></p><p>alternate:</p><p><a href="https://bestfile.io/en/NQkCrr4NOO0M1l5/file">https://bestfile.io/en/NQkCrr4NOO0M1l5/file</a></p><p>The cover photo is from a photo shoot in Bath, Britain, in May, 1989. <br/></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQcqOzqzuPq1jCC8FP0QBI1YLVzz6UcXfvygyXThenw7hOb8Uo-3tK_bcv_TMEz3PBVo2pkjVlWBrWdnGaNPRIKrI_DTFYr9nM4hAxwsF2esCLCHd4sijcQh5qozI3frcmv81TAXDK87XGwGtM4NMeAs68UgUsqjOnOUMKP4mdGorkUtTlh2nweYNt-s/s800/bbc01rainbow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQcqOzqzuPq1jCC8FP0QBI1YLVzz6UcXfvygyXThenw7hOb8Uo-3tK_bcv_TMEz3PBVo2pkjVlWBrWdnGaNPRIKrI_DTFYr9nM4hAxwsF2esCLCHd4sijcQh5qozI3frcmv81TAXDK87XGwGtM4NMeAs68UgUsqjOnOUMKP4mdGorkUtTlh2nweYNt-s/s320/bbc01rainbow.jpg" width="320"/></a></div>It's high time I start posting the music Van Morrison has performed for the BBC over his long solo career. <p></p><p>As far as I can tell, Morrison performed surprisingly rarely for the BBC in 1970s and 80s. I'm only aware of two BBC concerts in those decades, and no studio sessions. This first one comes arguably at the peak of his live performances, during the concerts recorded for his acclaimed double live album "It's Too Late to Stop Now." The songs on that album were taken from seven concerts in the summer of 1973, including two at the Rainbow Theatre in London, on July 23rd and 24th.<br/></p><p>The Wikipedia entry for the "It's Too Late to Stop Now" album has something to say about those two concerts at the Rainbow: "The London concerts were the first time he had appeared in that city since performing with Them, six years earlier. The two concerts at the Rainbow Theatre in London were referred to as 'the rock event of the year' by critics, according to Ritchie Yorke in his biography. The 24 July 1973 London Rainbow concert was the first BBC simulcast broadcast simultaneously on BBC 2 television and Radio 2 stereo so that viewers with strategically sited loudspeakers could enjoy 'stereo TV.'"</p><p>In 2016, a super deluxe edition of "It's Too Late to Stop Now" was released, called "It's Too Late To Stop Now Volumes II, III, IV." That included a full CD of the Rainbow Theatre concerts. However, that one mixed the July 23rd and 24th shows together without specifying which songs were from which. I listened, and it seems to me the vast majority of the songs were from the 23rd show, because I hear little overlap with this. So some of the songs here may be on the original "It's Too Late to Stop Now" and/or some may be from the super deluxe edition, but I'm betting most are still unreleased.</p><p>This comes from a bootleg of the original BBC broadcast. The sound quality generally is excellent. Unfortunately though, the quality dips some for the last three songs, which was the show's encore. In particular, during the last song, "Gloria," a BBC DJ spoke over a short section in the middle of the song to make an announcement about the concert soon coming to an end. I had to remove that section entirely and patch it in instead with a chunk of the same song from "It's Too Late to Stop Now." That's only for about ten to fifteen seconds, but it's pretty noticeable as the sound quality briefly gets better. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in the title.<br/></p><p>This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.</p><p>01 Warm Love (Van Morrison)<br/>02 Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket (Van Morrison)<br/>03 Here Comes the Night (Van Morrison)<br/>04 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Van Morrison)<br/>05 Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)<br/>06 Moonshine Whiskey (Van Morrison)<br/>07 Moondance (Van Morrison)<br/>08 Help Me (Van Morrison)<br/>09 Domino (Van Morrison)<br/>10 Caravan (Van Morrison)<br/>11 Cyprus Avenue (Van Morrison)<br/>12 Wild Night (Van Morrison)<br/>13 I Paid the Price (Van Morrison)<br/>14 Saint Dominic's Preview (Van Morrison)<br/>15 Gloria [Edit] (Van Morrison)</p><p><a href="https://pixeldrain.com/u/GFp6uGSV">https://pixeldrain.com/u/GFp6uGSV</a></p><p>alternate: <br/></p><p><a href="https://bestfile.io/c9OgThy2PmQVsYv/file">https://bestfile.io/c9OgThy2PmQVsYv/file</a></p><p>The cover photo might or might not be from this concert. It was taken at the Rainbow Theatre in London in July 1973. But he played two concerts there that month, so the odds are probably 50-50.<br/></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>