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" Morrison continues, " I saw Henry McCoy as an incredibly clever, witty, cultured, well-traveled, experienced, well-read character so I brought out those parts of his personality which seemed to me to fit the profiles of the smartest and most worldly people I know-his sense of humor is dark and oblique.
This tradition continues today with authors who have been accepted as an integral part of American literature, with works such as Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Beloved by Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison, and fiction works by Octavia Butler and Walter Mosley.

Morrison and record
The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.
Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Bert Berns, Them ’ s producer and composer of their 1965 hit, " Here Comes the Night ", persuaded Morrison to return to New York to record solo for his new label, Bang Records.
In February 1980, Morrison and a group of musicians travelled to Super Bear, a studio in the French Alps, to record ( on the site of a former abbey ) what is considered to be the most controversial album in his discography ; later " Morrison admitted that his original concept was even more esoteric than the final product.
Van Morrison continued to record and tour in the 2000s, often performing two or three times a week.
Widely renowned for their live performances, as of 2011, they hold the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre ( Morrison, Colorado ) at 38 and Philips Arena ( Atlanta, Georgia ) at 17.
Years later she would downplay this scenario but Morrison's ex-wife Janet ( Planet ) Minto has gone on record describing her initial subsequent vindictiveness towards Morrison.
His team record was later broken in 2007 by Brendan Morrison.
* 30 July 2002-Birmingham City, newly promoted to the Premier League, pay a club record £ 4. 25million for Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison.
However, a more positive record was set by Malcolm Morrison in the 1938 – 39 season when he became the club ’ s highest league scorer in one season with 36 goals.
After being mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine by Van Morrison, they landed a record deal with United Artists.
In the return leg, a Glasgow record of 6, 665 packed into Firhill to watch Glasgow hold to clinch a 25 – 20 win, thanks to a Graeme Morrison try, and 20 points from the boot of Dan Parks.
Sneddon was inspired by his father ’ s record collection of The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison and Elton John, and he cites The Beatles as a big influence.
The latest Morrison strata are followed by a thirty-million year gap in the geologic record.
" High Flying Bird " was designed to sound like a Van Morrison record, and " Midnight Creeper " was a tip of the hat to the Rolling Stones.
They re-united around the release and marketing of the Jim Morrison poetry record, An American Prayer which re-launched awareness of The Doors ' historical significance and sextupled their royalties.
He ran his own record label, ' 2 Wikid ', with rapper Mark Morrison the label's first signing.
As the band was beginning to record their first album, Montrose and Church left Sawbuck to join Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey album.
Morrison had a " moderate racial record " and was attacked in the campaign by Rarick as an ally of " the black-power voting bloc " and being an " LBJ rubber stamp ".
When asked which record he could not be without, he answered: " At this point I ’ ve determined that Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison is my favourite record of all time.
" Robert Christgau gave the album an A rating and noted that " Morrison documents his debt to blues and r & b definitively -- you can hear Bobby Bland all over the record, and cover tributes are paid as well to Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and Sam Cooke.

Morrison and tour
It was also during this tour that Slick and Morrison allegedly engaged in a brief sexual relationship, described in Slick's 1998 autobiography.
In May 2011, Matthew Morrison confirmed during an interview on talk show Chelsea Lately that he would also be joining the tour.
The " Killing Game " video and tour backing film were directed by William Morrison.
In August 2009, the band undertook a tour of Australia with multi-instrumentalist James Morrison which culminated in a concert at the Sydney Opera House.
Morrison later was incarcerated in Wormwood Scrubs for a year for paying a lookalike to perform his court-appointed community service in his stead, while Morrison himself went on tour.
* Jazz and Blues star Van Morrison has stayed locally and once took his friend Bob Dylan on a tour of the area.
At shows on the 2006 tour, they were joined onstage at various times by Rick Mullen ( of Van Morrison, Commander Cody, Don McLean ), Vince Martell ( Vanilla Fudge ), Mark Stein ( Vanilla Fudge ), and members of The Romantics.
In March 1967 Morrison made a short tour of the Netherlands backed by Cuby & the Blizzards and then left for New York to start his highly-successful solo career.
They reunited briefly in 1979, without Morrison, recording another album, Shut Your Mouth and undertaking a tour of Germany.
With the singles " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )" ( a Van Morrison cover ) and " Let's Get This Straight ( From The Start )" maintaining their popularity, the group continued to tour until 1983 with a nucleus of Rowland, Adams, O ' Hara and Shelton augmented by other musicians.
In 1992, the core Velvet Underground line-up of Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker decided to reform for a tour and possible album.
Morrison joined Maureen Tucker's band for a tour in 1994, and later that year was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, from which he died on August 30, 1995, two days after his 53rd birthday.
John Densmore recalls ) Morrison, however, was still in London after a European tour had just ended on September 20 and could not be reached by the other group members who agreed to the deal in his absence.
In July 2008 Morrison trained with Coventry City and accompanied them on their pre-season tour of Switzerland.
Morrison quit that group after her second tour with them, and formed another band called Fur Bible.
Despite and ever since Stan Rogers ' death on 2 June 1983 ( just a few weeks before Stan, Garnet and bass player Jim Morrison were to tour America for the first time ), Garnet Rogers has pursued his own career.
Gracie invited Jones and Ferrara to back him when Van Morrison commissioned Gracie to open his 2000 West Coast tour.
Three months after the concerts for the Too Late to Stop Now tour, Morrison had disbanded the The Caledonia Soul Orchestra and went on a vacation tour of Ireland for three weeks that resulted in the album, Veedon Fleece.
During the Wavelength tour, Morrison performed in his native Belfast for the first time since leaving for the US to record " Brown Eyed Girl " for Bang Records.
On June 16, 2010, Morrison joined Leona Lewis — appearing at London's O2 Arena as part of her world tour — for a one-off performance to sing " Over the Rainbow ".

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