* Enlightenment ( Van Morrison album ), 1990

*" Enlightenment " ( Van Morrison song ), 1990

* Van Morrison frequently performed the song in his live set.

Cahoots included tunes such as Bob Dylan's " When I Paint My Masterpiece ," " 4 % Pantomime " ( with Van Morrison ), and " Life Is A Carnival ," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Allen Toussaint.

Other guests they admired ( and in most cases had worked with before ) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.

* Van Morrison

** Van Morrison, Irish rock musician

In 1999 Jones released the album Reload, a collection of cover duets with artists such as The Cardigans, Natalie Imbruglia, Cerys Matthews, Van Morrison, Mousse T, Portishead, Stereophonics, and Robbie Williams.

*" Redwood Tree " ( song ), a song by Van Morrison

# " Someone Like You " by Van Morrison ( 4: 06 )

Influences include David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana and the Beatles.

* " Ancient of Days " is a song by Van Morrison from his 1984 album A Sense of Wonder

As a producer he has worked with U2 ( on their War album ), Van Morrison, Kate Bush, The Dubliners, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane, Patrick Street, Stockton's Wing and fellow Limerickman Richard Harris.

* 1984 Film score for Lamb, with Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

George Ivan ( Van ) Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hynford Street, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth.

From 1950 to 1956, Morrison, who began to be known as " Van " during this time, attended Elmgrove Primary School.

" Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had been favourably inclined towards Morrison, said: " It's Van acting the part of the ' mystic poet ' he thinks he's supposed to be.

The decade began with the release of The Best of Van Morrison ; compiled by Morrison himself, the album was focused on his hit singles, and became a multi-platinum success remaining a year and a half on the UK charts.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

Van Melle was born in Goes.

Van Cleef was born Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Jr. in Somerville, New Jersey, the son of Marion Levinia ( née Van Fleet ) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr.

Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, about 25 miles ( 40 km ) south of Albany, New York.

Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States, as all previous presidents were born before the American Revolution.

Van der Berge identifies common descent as the basis for the establishment of boundaries of ethnic groups, as most people to not join ethnic groups but are born into them.

In the dialect of Holland, it is, with a voiceless V. Van Gogh grew up in Brabant ( although his parents were not born there ), and used Brabant dialect in his writing ; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent:, with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh.

* November 25 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York ( b. 1643 )

Van Basten was born on 31 October 1964 in Utrecht.

Don Van Vliet (, born Don Glen Vliet ;

Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet ( née Warfield ), who was from Arkansas.

Van Vliet also claimed that he was related to adventurer and author Richard Halliburton and the cowboy actor Slim Pickens, and said that he remembered being born.

* Lindsey Van ( born 1984 ), American ski jumper

* Marina de Van ( born 1971 ), French film director, screenwriter and actress

* Tomiko Van ( born 1971 ), Japanese singer and actress

* Van Nelson ( born 1945 ), an American long-distance runner

* Malinda Williams ( born 1975 ), actress who played hair stylist Tracy " Bird " Van Adams on the Showtime television drama Soul Food.

* Le Van Duyet: famous 18th century Vietnamese eunuch, military strategist and government official ( not a true eunuch, he was born a hermaphrodite )

State of the Union, a 1945 play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, about a fictional Republican presidential candidate, was reportedly loosely inspired by Willkie and his alleged mistress Irita Van Doren.

* March 30 – George Van Haltren, baseball player ( d. 1945 )

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

After Ho Chi Minh rose to power during the August Revolution in 1945, Pham Van Dong was appointed minister of finance of the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ), a position he occupied till 1954.

The 1945 General Motors Van Nuys Assembly Plant, a major manufacturing facility for General Motors's Chevrolet division along with aerospace and defense plants in neighboring cities led to a prosperity which inspired many to call the San Fernando Valley " America's suburb " ( as in Kevin Roderick's book ).

* 1945 – On the day of the Hiroshima A-bomb blast ( marking the end of WWII ), General Motors announces the planned Van Nuys car plant, starting the Valley's great suburban boom of the 1950s.

* 1945 – 1950 – GM car plant and development of neighboring Panorama City ( Valley's first mall ) define the post WWII " suburban boom " that spread west, filling up the San Fernando Valley, and challenged Van Nuys ' primacy as " Valley center ".

* Wilfried Van Moer, football player ( b. 1945 )

* Luc Van Den Brande ( 1945 ), Flemish politician.

Van Creveld notes that many of the wars fought after 1945 were low-intensity conflicts ( LICs ) which powerful states ended up losing.

In 1945 he was approached by the Associated Industries of Georgia ( AIG ) who shared their common desire to have such a program established and offered Van Leer their support.

In early 1945 Hague retaliated by having his hand-picked United States Attorney bring two federal indictments against Van Riper — one charging check kiting and the other related to the alleged sale of gasoline in the black market.

Van Heusen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song 14 times in 12 different years ( in both 1945 and 1964 he was nominated for two songs ), and won 4 times: in 1944, 1957, 1959, and 1963.

The World of Null-A appeared originally as a 1945 serial in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, which was edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Van Vogt revised and shortened the tale for the 1948 novel release by Simon and Schuster.

From 1942 to 1945, Van Zyl was Administrator of the Cape Province.

* Nicole Van from Kerchove ( 1945 – 2008 ), navigator

Sammy Timberg served as musical director until 1945 when Winston Sharples, formerly of the Van Beuren Studios, took his place.

Geoffrey Charles Van Orden MBE ( born 10 April 1945 ) is a British politician and former soldier.

Van Orden was born in Waterlooville, Hampshire in 1945.

Van Brocklin served in the United States Navy from 1943 through 1945.

) Much admired for her adaptations of traditional Manchu fashion, which she wore with lace trousers and jade necklaces, Oei Hui-lan was one of the 42 acknowledged children of the Peranakan Chinese sugar magnate Oei Tiong Ham and wrote two memoirs: Hui-Lan Koo ( Mrs. Wellington Koo ): An Autobiography ( written with Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Dial Press, 1945 ) and No Feast Lasts Forever ( written with Isabella Taves, Quadrangle / The New York Times, 1975 ).