Van Morrison's family roots descend from the Ulster Scots population that settled in Belfast.

The sessions resulted in the release of Crimson and Blue, a bluesy rock album geared to the Christian market that included a cover of Van Morrison's " When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God ".

Richard Davis, upright bass player on " The Angel ", also played the bass on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

Other notable songs that are played at almost all shows, but have been dropped on occasion, are " Son of a Son of a Sailor ", Van Morrison's " Brown Eyed Girl " and Crosby, Stills and Nash's " Southern Cross ".

Recording dates were set for July and August 1993 for what would become Buckley's recording debut, an EP of four songs which included a cover of Van Morrison's " The Way Young Lovers Do ".

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph J. Gleason noted: " It is really in the quality of his sound that Van Morrison's impact comes through most strongly.

NIck Butler wrote in a Sputnikmusic review: " This is Van Morrison's 6th Symphony ; like Beethoven's equivalent, it's fixated on the power of nature, but rather than merely sitting in awe, it finds spirituality and redemption in the most basic of things.

Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album, Into the Music, for slide guitar on the song " Full Force Gale ".

Recording adjacent to Van Morrison's studio, musician John Cale reported, " Morrison couldn't work with anybody, so finally they just shut him in the studio by himself.

The song " Into the Mystic ", played at the end of the film when Jim and Michelle take to the dance floor at the reception, begins as Van Morrison's recording, but midway through it changes to The Wallflowers ' cover version due to licensing reasons.

From Japan, notable artists included Mondo Grosso, DJ Krush, Gota and United Future Organization who released ' I Love my Baby: My Baby Loves Jazz ' as well as a cover of Van Morrison's ' Moondance '; another prominent artist from Japan was the female vocalist and flautist ( and daughter of jazz musicians Japanese-American Toshiko Akiyoshi and American Charlie Mariano, and stepdaughter of American Lew Tabackin ), Monday Michiru.

For the role, Leigh dropped to and sang all her songs live, including a rambling 8½-minute version of Van Morrison's " Take Me Back " performed as her character is under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

The street is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song " Human Hands ", in Van Morrison's song " Heavy Connection ", in the Midnight Oil song " Mountains of Burma ", the Sloppy Seconds song " Germany " from their album Destroyed and in the Runrig song " Song of the Earth ".

The Shadows of Knight's cover of Van Morrison's Gloria is still a classic 40 years later.

Her biggest hit is a duet with John Mellencamp, a cover version of Van Morrison's " Wild Night ", which reached # 3 on the Billboard charts.

It focuses on " Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career.

Bobby Vinton's slow and soothing version of " Blue Moon " plays during the opening credits, Van Morrison's " Moondance " as David and Alex make love for the first time, Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Bad Moon Rising " as David is nearing the moment of changing to the werewolf, a soft, bittersweet ballad version of " Blue Moon " by Sam Cooke during the agonizing wolf transformation and The Marcels ' doo-wop version of " Blue Moon " over the end credits.

During that show, they performed " Gloria " by Van Morrison's Northern Irish Them band.

The first such transmission was in 1975, when the BBC broadcast a recording of Van Morrison's London Rainbow Concert simultaneously on BBC2 TV and Radio 2 ( see It's Too Late to Stop Now ).

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard " Gloria " and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.

The cover was designed by Larry Zox, and was originally created for Van Morrison's unreleased 1975 album, Mechanical Bliss.

The most famous mention of the pastie in popular culture is in Van Morrison's title track from his A Sense of Wonder album with the line of " pastie suppers down at Davey's chipper ".

" Astral Plane " is the name of song on the debut album of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers and the astral concept informed the lyrics of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

Ladbroke Grove features as the scene of Van Morrison's 1968 song " Slim Slow Slider " from Astral Weeks, and is mentioned in the 1970s pop hit " One Man Band " by Leo Sayer.

Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.

The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence.

Ginsberg cites Artaud's " Van Gogh -- The Man Suicided by Society " as a direct influence on " Howl ", along with Apollinaire's " Zone ", García Lorca's " Ode to Walt Whitman ", and Schwitters ' " Priimiititiii ".

Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.

In Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others.

Many artists have cited Van Vliet as an influence, beginning with the Edgar Broughton Band, who covered Dropout Boogie as Apache Drop Out ( mixed with The Shadows ' " Apache ") as early as 1970 and The Kills coverage of it 32 years later.

Van Vliet's influence on post – punk bands was demonstrated by Magazine's recording of " I Love You You Big Dummy " in 1978 and the tribute album Fast ' n ' Bulbous-A Tribute to Captain Beefheart in 1988, featuring the likes of artists such as the Dog Faced Hermans, The Scientists, The Membranes, Simon Fisher Turner, That Petrol Emotion, the Primevals, The Mock Turtles, XTC, and Sonic Youth, who included a cover of Beefheart's " Electricity " as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album Daydream Nation.

" Guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers cited Van Vliet as a prominent influence on the band's 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik as well as his debut solo album Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt ( 1994 ) and stated that during his drug-induced absence, after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he " would paint and listen to Trout Mask Replica.

" Black Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.

The colour and texture of Dobson's work was influenced by Venetian art, but Van Dyck's style has little apparent influence on Dobson.

Stoker's vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing was a strong influence on subsequent vampire literature.

His term was largely unremarkable, and he enjoyed little influence with President Van Buren.

The Turkmen, nomads who settled in the area of Lake Van, were responsible for a number of mosques, such as the Blue Mosque in Tabriz, and they had a decisive influence after the fall of the Anatolian Seljuqs.

Chase drafted the Free-Soil platform, and it was chiefly through his influence that Van Buren was their nominee for President in 1848.

For some time, he attempted to gain the support of American President Martin Van Buren using all the diplomatic influence that he and American supporters could provide.

Van der Weyden had also a large influence on the German painter and engraver Martin Schongauer whose prints were distributed all over Europe from the last decades of the 15th century.

The Vienna Circle's influence on 20th century philosophy was immense, and much later work, such as that of Willard Van Orman Quine, was in response to the Circle's thought.

Van Zandt cites the Dave Clark Five as an early influence.

Of the same years is the Crucifixion in the Royal Museum of Antwerp: his early works shows a marked Flemish influence, which it is now understood he derived from his master Colantonio and from works by Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck that belonged to Colantonio's patron, Alfonso V of Aragon ; his biographer Vasari remarked that Antonello saw at Naples an oil painting by Jan Van Eyck ( the " Lomellini Tryptych ") belonging to King Alfonso V of Aragon ; Vasari's further narrative, that being struck by the new method, set out for the Netherlands to acquire a knowledge of the process from Van Eyck's disciples is discredited today.

According to historian John Van der Kiste, this was done to limit the influence Ernest's eldest brother George, Prince of Wales, who was leading an extravagant lifestyle, would have over his younger brothers.

A review of the exhibition by curator Everl Adair noted the influence of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O ' Keeffe on her paintings and concluded that her surviving corpus of art " represents the work of a talented, visionary woman who rose above tremendous odds to create a fascinating body of work — one that inspires us to celebrate the life that might have been.

Fronted by Bap Kennedy ( brother of Irish singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy ), their style drew heavily on the influence of Van Morrison and other R & B, but incorporated traditional elements of Irish folk music.