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Early life and musical roots: 194564 George Ivan (Van) Morrison was born on August 31, 1945 in Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard worker and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth. Van Morrison's family roots descendants of the Ulster Scots population in Belfast. From 1950 to 1956, Morrison, who began to be known as "From" at this time, who attended Elmgrove Primary School. Morrison's father had what at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster (acquired during his stay in Detroit, Michigan in early 1950), and Morrison grew up listening to young artists like Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly and Solomon Burke;. From whom Morrison later said: "If it were not for boys Ray and Solomon, I would not be where I am today These guys were the inspiration that I am. If it were not for that kind of music, I could not do what I do now. "His father's record collection exposed him to various musical genres like the blues of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson's gospel, the jazz of Charlie Parker, the folk music of Woody Guthrie, and country music by Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, while the first record he ever bought was by bluesman Sonny Terry. When Lonnie Donegan had a hit with "Rock Island Line" written by Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly), Morrison felt he was familiar with and able to connect with skiffle music as he heard Leadbelly before. Morrison's father bought him his first acoustic guitar when he was eleven, and he learned to play rudimentary chords from the song book, The Carter Family Style, edited by Alan Lomax. A year later, when he twelve years old, Morrison formed his first band, a skiffle group, "Sputnik", named after the recently launched Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1. In 1958 was the band on some of the local cinemas, and Morrison took the lead, bear most of the singing and arranging. Other groups followed a short period of fourteen, he formed Midnight Special, a modified skiffle band and played at a school concert. When he heard Jimmy Giuffre saxophone playing on "the train and the River" that he talked his father into buying him a saxophone, tenor saxophone and took lessons in music reading. Now playing the saxophone, Morrison along with several local bands, including one called Deanie Sands and the Javelins, with whom he played shared guitar and sing. Later, the four most important musicians of the Javelins, with the addition of Wesley Black as keyboardist, known as the Monarchs. Morrison attended Orangefield High School, where in July 1960 with no qualifications. As a member of a working class community, it was expected that he would a regular full-time job to get, so after a few short apprenticeship positions, he settled into a job as a window cleaner later alluded to in his songs, "Cleaning Windows" and "Saint Dominic's Preview". However, he was developing his musical interests from an early age and continued playing with the Monarchs part-time. Young Morrison also played with the Harry Mack Showband, the Great Eight, with his older workplace friend, Geordie Sproule whom he later identified as one of his greatest influences. At age 17 he toured Europe for the first time with the Monarchs, now calling itself the International Princes. This Irish Showband, with Morrison plays saxophone, guitar and harp, in addition to backup duty on bass and drums, steamy clubs and toured U.S. military bases in Scotland, England and Germany, often with five sets per night. While in Germany, the band a single, "Boozoo Hully Gully" / "Twingy Baby", called Georgia and the monarchs. Morrison This was the first recording, which takes place in November 1963 on Ariola Studios in Cologne with Morrison on saxophone, it made the lower reaches of the German charts. Upon his return to Belfast in November 1963, disbanded the group, so Morrison in connection with Geordie Sproule again and played with him in the Manhattan Showband along with guitarist Herbie Armstrong. When Armstrong auditioned to play with Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles, Morrison went along and was hired as a blues singer. Hen: 196466 Editorial: Them (band) The roots of them, the band who first Morrison broke on the international scene, came in April 1964 when Morrison responded to an ad for musicians to play on a new R & B club in the Maritime Hotel an old dance hall frequented by sailors. The new R & B club needs a band for the opening night, but Morrison had the Golden Eagles (a group that he was performing at the time), So he created a new band The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962. Eric Wrixon, still a schoolboy, was The pianist and keyboard player. Morrison played the saxophone and harmonica and shared vocals with Billy Harrison. They followed Eric Wrixon's suggestion for a new name, and The Gamblers morphed in them, their name derived from the fifties horror movie Them!. The band's strong R & B gigs in the Maritime attracted attention. They performed without a routine and ad Morrison have improvised, creating his songs live as it occurred. While the band was doing covers, they also played some of Morrison's early songs such as "Could You Would You ", which he had written in Camden Town while touring with The Manhattan Showband. The debut of Morrison's" Gloria "took place on the podium here. Sometimes, depending on his mood, the song can last up to twenty minutes. Morrison has stated that "they lived and died on stage at the Maritime Hotel," believe that the band failed to capture records of the spontaneity and energy of their live performances on their website. Dick Rowe of Decca Records, became aware of the band's performance, and signed them to a standard two-year contract. During this period, they released two albums and ten singles with two more singles after Morrison left the band. They had three hits, "Baby, Please Do not Go" (1964), "Here Comes The Night" (1965), and "Mystic Eyes" (1965), but it was the b-side of " Baby, Please Do not Go ", the garage-band classic" Gloria "that went to others has become a rock standard covered by Patti Smith, The Doors, Shadows of Knight, and Jimi Hendrix. "Gloria" Morrison's garage rock classic was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. As described by Paul Williams "Van Morrison's voice a bright beacon in the darkness, the lighthouse at the end of the world results in one of the most perfect rock songs. Known to mankind." Problems listen to this file? See media help. Building on the success of their singles in the United States, and riding on the back of the British Invasion, she undertook a two-month tour of America in May and June 1966 a three week residency at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. The doors were opening for the last week, Morrison and influence on the doors singer, Jim Morrison, was noted by John Densmore in his book Riders On The Storm, "Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near namesake's stagecraft, his apparent recklessness, his air of subdued menace, the way he would improvise poetry to a rock beat, even his habit of crouching through the bass drum during instrumental breaks. "On last night the two Morrisons and the two bands jammed together on "Gloria". By the end of the tour the band members became involved in a dispute with their manager, Decca Records' Phil Solomon, the income paid to the band, which, combined with the expiration of their work visas, meant the band returned from America despondent. After another two concerts in Ireland, to divide. Morrison focused on writing some of the songs that would appear on Astral Weeks, while the remains of the band reformed in 1967 and moved to America. Beginning of solo career with Bang Records and "Brown Eyed Girl" 1967 "Brown Eyed Girl Morrison's classic 1967 hit single that appeared on the album Blowin 'Your Mind!. In 2007 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Problems listening to the file? See media help. Bert Berns, a producer and they Composer of their 1965 hit, "Here Comes The Night", brought Morrison to return to New York to record a solo records to his new label, Bang. Morrison flew over and signed a contract that he was not fully investigated. Then, during a two-day recording session at A & R Studios from March 28, 1967, eight songs were recorded originally to be used as four singles. Instead, these numbers were released as the album Blowin 'Your Mind! Morrison without consultation. He said he was only aware became the album's release, when a friend called on a phone call he had just bought a copy. He later commented on Donal Corvin in a 1973 interview. "I was not really happy he picked up the bands and songs I had a different concept. them. these early sessions came "Brown Eyed Girl" "However, out. Caught on the 22nd on the first day, this song was released as a single in mid-June 1967, reaching number ten on the U.S. charts in 1967. "Brown Eyed Girl" was most played song Morrison and over the years it has remained a classic, forty years later in 2007, was the fourth most requested song of Dj's in the U.S.. After the death of Bern in 1967, Morrison involved in a contract dispute with the widow of Berns, who does on stage or recording in the New York area. The song, "Big Time Operators", released in 1993, is thought to have dealings with the New York music business during this period allude. He then moved to Boston, Massachusetts and was soon confronted with personal and financial problems, because he had "slipped into a malaise" and had trouble finding concert bookings. However, through the few gigs he could find, he regained his professional foot and began recording with the Warner Bros. Records label. The record company buy out his contract with Bang Records. Morrison has complied with a clause that bound him to submit to thirty-six original songs within one year by recording thirty-one songs in one session, but Eileen Berns thought the songs "crap music … about ring worms and not use. Astral Weeks 1968 Main article: Weeks' Astral Weeks is about the power of the human voice ecstatic pain, painful ecstasy. Astral Here is an Irish tenor reborn as a white negro a white Soul Man pleading and begging on a bed of dreamy folk-jazz instrumentation: bass, brushed drums, vibraphone and acoustic guitar, flute and of course the odd string quartet. acoustic "Barney Hoskyns Mojo A mix of folk, jazz, and stream of consciousness, but ultimately a genre of its own, Astral Weeks (1968) is often regarded as a of the best albums ever made. Astral Weeks song title of 1968 with the opening lines of the album: "If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream." His early voting was described as "harsh and tender, praying and complaining." Problems listening to the file? See media help. His first album for Warner Bros. Records was Astral Weeks (who he played in several clubs around Boston), a mystical song cycle, often considered his best work. Morrison has said, "When Astral Weeks, I was starved, literally. "Released in 1968, the album finally achieved critical acclaim, but it originally received an indifferent reaction from the public. To this day, remains in an unclassifiable music genre and has been variously described as hypnotic, meditative, and if possession of a unique musical power. It is compared with the French Impressionism and mystical Celtic poetry. A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: "This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after the release, Astral Weeks still easy, admiring defies description. "Alan Light Astral Weeks would describe it later as if he had not done anything really previouslynd, no one had done before. Morrison sings of lost love, death, and nostalgia for childhood in the Celtic soul, which would be his signature. "It is placed on many lists of best albums of all time. In 1995 Mojo's list of 100 best albums, it was listed as number two and was number nineteen on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Best albums of all time in 2003. In December 2009 it was voted the top Irish albums of all time by a poll of the most prominent Irish musicians led by Hot Press magazine. Moon Dance in music: the third solo album 197 079 Morrison, Moondance, which was released in 1970, became his first million selling album and reached number twenty-nine on the Billboard charts. Moondance's style was unlike that of Astral Weeks. Whereas Astral Weeks had a sad and vulnerable tone, Moondance recovered from an optimistic and cheerful message his music. The title track, although not released in the U.S. as one until 1977, received heavy play in the FM radio formats. "Into the Mystic" has a broad experience over the next year. The single was "Come Running", which reached the American Top 40. Moondance was both well received and positively evaluated. Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus had a combined full page review in Rolling Stone, stating that Morrison now had "the striking imagination of a consciousness that is visionary in the strongest sense. "That was the type of band I dig," Morrison said of the Moondance sessions. " two horns and a rhythm section they understand the nature of the bands that I like best. "He produced the album himself as he felt like no one else knew what he wanted. Moondance is at number sixty-five on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 greatest albums of all time. In March 2007 Moondance was listed as number seventy-two on the NARM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of "200 Final". Over the next few years, he was a succession albums by starting with half in 1970. His Band and the Street Choir had a free, more relaxed sound than Moondance, but not perfection, in the opinion of the critic Jon Landau, that felt like "a couple of songs with a severity have made the album" Street Choir "was as perfect as anyone could have been." It contained the hit single " Domino ", which charted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. 1971, he received another good album Tupelo Honey. This album produced the single" Wild Night " that was later covered by John Mellencamp. The title song is a special country-soul feel on the album and ends with a country tune, "Moonshine Whiskey." Morrison said he originally intended for a full country album. The recordings were alive as possible after rehearsing the songs of the musicians would go into the studio and play a whole series in one take. His co-producer, Ted Templeman, described the recording process as "the scariest thing I've ever seen. When he has something together, he wants to put it down immediately with no overdubbing." Released In 1972, Saint Dominic's Preview, Morrison appeared break from the more accessible style of his previous three albums and moving back to the more daring, adventurous, and meditative aspects of Astral Weeks. The combination of two styles of music showed a versatility not previously found in his earlier albums. Two songs ("Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in heaven when you smile) "and" Redwood Tree ") reached the Hot 100 singles chart. The songs" Listen to the Lion "and" Almost Independence Day "are each more than ten minutes long and in the service of the type of poetic images not heard since Astral Weeks. It was his highest charting album in the U.S. until his debut in the Top Ten Billboard 200 in 2008. He released his next album Hard Nose the Highway in 1973 with mixed but mostly negative reviews. The album contained the popular song "Warm Love" but otherwise largely critically dismissed. In a 1973 Rolling Stone review, was described as "psychologically complex, musically and lyrically somewhat uneven excellent." During a three weeks holiday visit to Ireland in October 1973, Morrison wrote seven of the songs that make up his next album, Veedon Fleece. Although it attracted little initial attention, its critical stature has grown strongly over the year sith Veedon Fleece now often regarded as one of the most dramatic and poetic works Morrison. In a 2008 Rolling Stone review, Andy Greene writes that when released in late 1974: "It was greeted with a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment" and concludes: "He has many wonderful albums since, but he is never more pressure on the majestic heights of these. "" You Do not pull no punches, but You Do not Push the River ", a side street of the album closers, an example of the long, hypnotic, cryptic references to Morrison with his visionary poet William Blake and the seemingly Grail-like Veedon Fleece object. Morrison album you would not be releasing a follow-up for another three years. After a decade without taking time off, he said in an interview that he needed to get away from the music and completely stopped listening to it for several months. Also suffered from writer's block that he seriously considered the music business for good. Speculation that a comprehensive jam session would be released under the title Mechanical Bliss, or naked in the jungle, or Stiff Upper Lip, came to nothing, and Morrison's next album was a transitional period 1977, a collaboration with Dr. John, who had appeared in The Last Waltz with Morrison in 1976. The album received a mild critical reception and marked the beginning of a very fertile period of the song to. "Wavelength" Morrison sings the opening lines in falsetto mimic the sounds of synthesizers and shortwave radio stations he listened as a boy. Issues listen to this file? See media help:. Into the Music "album of the last four tracks," Angelou, "And the healing has begun", and " It's All in the Game / You know what they are writing about "are a genuine tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal" Angelou's climax to the sexually charged, half-mumbled monologue screams in "And the healing has begun" to the barely audible whisper that is the final album sound. " (Scott Thomas Review) The following year, Morrison released wavelength was at that time the fastest selling album of his career and quickly went gold. The title track was a modest hit, peaking at number forty-two. By using synthesizers in 1970, it mimics the sounds of shortwave radio stations he listened in his youth. The opening track, "Kingdom Hall" said Morrison's own childhood experiences to church with his mother and predicted a religious theme that would prove more in his next album, Into the Music. Considered by Allmusic as "the final post-classical era Morrison, in music, was released in the last years of the 1970s with songs on this album hinted at what would become recurring themes ". religious redemption, Celtic myths and the redemptive power of music" 'Bright Side of the Road "was a happy, uplifting song that would appear on the soundtrack of the film, Michael. Common One to Avalon Sunset: 198,089 With his next album, the new decade after Morrison found his muse into uncharted territory and merciless reviews. In February 1980, Morrison and a group of musicians traveled to Super Bear, a studio in the French Alps to record (on the site of a former abbey) which is considered the most controversial album in his discography, later, "Morrison admitted that his original concept was even more esoteric than the final product. "The album, Common One, consisted of six songs, each of different length. The longest," Summertime in England "took fifteen and a half minutes and ended with the words: "Can you feel the silence?". Paul Du Noyer magazine NME called the album "colossal smug and cosmically dull, an endless, empty and drearily egotistical stabbing on spirituality: Into the Muzak. "Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had been in favor of Morrison, said:" The Van acting the part of the "mystic poet 'he thinks he should be." Morrison insisted that the album was never "meant to be. Commercial album Biographer Clinton Heylin concludes: "He would not try anything so ambitious again. From now on every radical idea would be tempered by some notion of commercialism. "But the critics would back the album more favorably to the success of" Summertime in England ". Lester Bangs wrote in 1982," Van was making sacred music, although he thought he was, and us [Sic] lyrics rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to it. "Morrison's next album, beautiful vision, released in 1982, he was again on the music of his Northern Irish roots. Well received by critics and the public has a small British hit, "Cleaning Windows ", that one of Morrison's first jobs referenced after leaving school. Several other songs on the album," Stairway Vanlose " "She gives me religion" and the instrumental, "Scandinavia" show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and act as a stabilizing influence on him throughout most of the year 1980. "Scandinavia", in Morrison on piano, was nominated in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the 25th Annual Grammy Awards. Much of the music Morrison released in the year 1980 continue to focus on the themes of spirituality and faith. His 1983 album, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart "a step towards creating music for meditation" with synthesizers, uilleann pipes and whistles and four of the tracks are instrumentals. The titles of the album and the presence of the instrumentals were recorded are indicative of long-held belief Morrison's that "not the words one uses, but the strength of conviction behind those words that matters." During this period of time, Morrison had Scientology studied and gave "special thanks" to L. Ron Hubbard in the credits of the album. A Sense of Wonder, Morrison album in 1985, pulled together spiritual themes his last four albums, which is defined as a Rolling Stone review: "rebirth (Into the Music), deep reflection and meditation (Common One), ecstasy and humility (Beautiful Vision). And fortunately, mantra like lethargy (Inarticulate Speech of the Heart) "The single," Tore Down a la Rimbaud "was a reference to Rimbaud and an earlier attack of writer's block, that Morrison had experienced in 1974. In 1985, Morrison also wrote the musical score for the film, starring Liam Neeson Lam. Morrison 1986 release, had no guru, no method, no teacher, said that it contain a "true holiness … and musical freshness to be set in the context to understand." Critical reaction was favorable with Sounds a reviewer calling the album's most intriguing question since Astral Weeks "and" Morrison at his most mystical, magical best. "It includes the song" In the Garden ", which according to Morrison, was a" definite meditation process which is a 'form' of transcendent meditation as a basis. It is not TM. He entitled the album as a refutation of the media attempts to place him in different faiths. In an interview in The Observer said he told Anthony Denselow: There are many lies about me and this finally crossed state my position. I've never joined any organization or plan. I am not affiliated to any guru, does not subscribe to a method and for those people who do not know what a guru is I'm not a teacher, either. After releasing the "No Guru" album, Morrison's music seemed less gritty and more adult contemporary with the well-received 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose, considered one of his recording highlights of the year 1980. The romantic ballad of the album, "Someone Like You", was later incorporated into the soundtracks of several films, including 1995's French Kiss in 2001, both Someone Like You and Bridget Jones's Diary. In 1988 he released Irish Heartbeat, a collection of traditional Irish folk songs recorded with the Irish group The Chieftains, which reached number 18 in the British album charts. The title song, "Irish Heartbeat" was originally recorded on his 1983 album Inarticulate Speech of the Heart. The 1989 album, Avalon Sunset, which featured the hit duet with Cliff Richard "When God Shines His Light" and the ballad "Have I Told You Lately" (on which "earthly love transmutes that for God. "(Hinton), reached 13 on the UK album chart. Although regarded as a deeply spiritual album, but also contained" Daring Night ", which 'So full, burning sex, regardless of church organs and set soft rhythm. " (Hinton) Morrison's familiar themes of "God, woman, his childhood in Belfast and the enchanted moments when time stands still "were prominent in the songs. He can be heard calling the change of pace at the end of this song repeating the numbers "1 4". He refers to the harmony changes in the music he wants to hear, (the first chord and the fourth string in the key of the music). He often completed albums in two days, with the first take frequently the norm. The Best of Van Morrison to Back on Top: 199099 The early to mid 1990 were commercially successful for Morrison with three albums reaching the top five of the UK charts, sold out concerts, and a more visible public profile, but this period also meant a decrease of the critical reception of his work. The decade began with the release of The Best of Van Morrison, compiled by Morrison himself, the album focuses on his hit singles, and became a multi-platinum success of the remaining one year and half on the UK charts. Allmusic states that it "by far the best selling album of his career. "After the Enlightenment, the hit single" Real Real Gone ", recorded a compilation album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two was released in January 1993, followed by long exile in June, another top five chart. The 1994 double live album A Night in San Francisco received critical acclaim and commercial success by reaching number eight on the British charts. 1995's Days Like This had large sales although the critics were not always favorable. This period also saw a number of ancillary projects, including live jazz performances of 1996 is how long is this going on, the same year Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions – In Belfast 1998, all found Morrison paying tribute to his early musical influences. Live In 1997, Morrison released The Healing Game. The album received mixed reviews, with the texts is described as "tired" and "boring", while critic Greil Marcus praised the musical complexity of the album by saying: "It carries the listener into a musical house as perfect and complete, he or she may have forgotten such a thing existed." The next year, he finally released some of his previously released studio recordings in a two-disc set, The Philosopher's Stone. His next release, 1999's Back On Top, a modest success, being his highest charting album in the U.S. since 1978 Wavelength. In recent years: since 2000 by Van Morrison continued to record and tour the year 2000, often performing two or three times a week. He formed his own independent label, Exile Productions Ltd, which enables him to maintain full production control each album he records, which he then delivers a final product to the record label that he chooses for marketing and distribution. The album, Down the Road, released in May 2002, received a good critical reception and found his highest charting album in the U.S. since 1972, Saint Dominic's Preview. It had a nostalgic tone, with its fifteen different numbers musical genres that Morrison had previously coveredncluding R & B, blues, country and folk, one of the tracks was written as a tribute to his deceased father George, who had a central role in nurturing his early musical taste. Morrison's next album, Magic Time, debuted at number twenty-five of the Billboard 200 charts in its May 2005 release, some forty years after Morrison first in the public eye as the frontman of Them. Rolling Stone listed as number seventeen on the Top 50 records from 2005. In July 2005, Morrison was named by Amazon as one of their top twenty-five all-time best selling artists and inducted into the Amazon.com Hall of Fame. Later in the year, Morrison also donated a previously unreleased studio track to a charity album, Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now, which collected money for the relief intended for Gulf Coast victims devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Morrison composed the song, "Blue and Green", with Foggy Lyttle on guitar. This song was released in 2007 on the album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 as well as single in the UK. Morrison was a headline performance at the international Celtic music festival, The Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway Outer Hebrides in the summer of 2005. He brought a album with a country music theme, entitled Pay the Devil, on March 7, 2006 and appeared on the Ryman Auditorium, where tickets sold out immediately after they went on sale. Pay Devil debuted at number twenty-six the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven on the Top Country Albums. Amazon Best of 2006 Editor's Picks in that country, the country album at number ten in December 2006. Continue to promote the country album, Morrison's performance as the headline act on the first night of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on September 15, 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top ten shows of the 2006 festival. In November 2006, a limited edition album, Live at Austin City Limits Festival was issued by Exile Productions A later ltd deluxe CD / DVD release of Pay the Devil, in the summer of 2006 included songs from the Ryman performance. In October 2006, Morrison released his first commercial DVD, Live at Montreux 1980/1974 with concerts from two separate performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival. A new double CD compilation album The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 was released in June 2007 thirty-one tracks, some previously unreleased. Morrison selected tracks, ranging from the 1993 album Too Long in Exile to the song "Stranded" from the 2005 album Magic Time. On September 3, 2007, was Morrison's entire catalog of albums from 1971 to 2002 made available exclusively on the iTunes store in Europe and Australia and during the first week of October 2007, the albums became available in the U.S. iTunes Store -. Still On Top The Greatest Hits, a double-CD track thirty-seven compilation album was released on October 22, 2007 in the UK on the Polydor label. On October 29, 2007, the album charted at number two in the official UK Top 75 Albumsis highest UK charting. The November release in the U.S. and Canada contains nine p.m. selected tracks. The hits albums that were released on the copyrights owned by Morrison as Exile Productions Ltd.1971 laterad and remastered in 2007. Keep It Simple, Morrison's 33rd studio album of completely new material was released by Exile / Polydor Records on March 17, 2008 in the UK and released on Exile / Lost Highway Records in the U.S. and Canada on April 1, 2008. It consists of eleven self-penned tracks. Morrison promoted the album with a brief U.S. tour, including a performance at the SXSW Music Conference and a British concert broadcast on BBC Radio 2. In the first week of release Keep It Simple debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number ten in Morrison's first Top Ten charting in the U.S.. Live shows a smiling Van Morrison performing at the Marin Civic Center, 2007. In 1972, after a performer for the almost ten years, Morrison began experiencing stage-fright when performing for an audience of thousands, unlike the hundreds he had experienced in his early career. He became anxious on stage and would have difficulty establishing eye contact with the public. He once said in an interview on the stage: "I dig singing the songs, but there are times when it's pretty painful for me to be off. "After a short break from music, he started in clubs, regaining his ability to live, albeit with smaller audiences. In 1974 live double-album, It's Too Late To Stop Now, on lists of the greatest live albums of all time. Biographer Johnny Rogan provides that "Morrison was in the middle of what Perhaps his biggest stage as a performer. "Performances on the album were from tapes made during a three-month tour in the U.S. and Europe in 1973 with the support group The Caledonia Soul Orchestra. Shortly after recording the album, Morrison restructured Caledonia Soul Orchestra into a smaller unit, the Caledonia Soul Express. Morrison enter into 1976 The Band's final concert, filmed for The Last Waltz. On Thanksgiving Day 1976, Morrison performed at the farewell concert for the band. Morrison's first live performance in some years, he considered skipping his appearance until the last minute, even refusing to go on stage when they announced his name. His manager, Harvey Goldsmith, said he "literally kicked him out there." Morrison was on good terms with the band as near-neighbors in Woodstock, and they had the shared experience of stage fright. When concert, he performed two songs, including "Caravan," from his 1970 album Moondance. Greil Marcus, in attending the concert, wrote:. "Van Morrison turned about the show … sing to the rafters, and … burn holes in the floor It was a triumph, and like the song, Van began to kick his leg into the air in sheer exuberance and kicked him his way right behind the scenes as a Rockette. The crowd gave him a fine welcome and they cheered when he left game. "The filmed concert served as the basis for Martin Scorsese's 1978 film, The Last Waltz. It was during his association with the band acquired Morrison nicknames "Belfast Cowboy" and "The Man". When Morrison sang it duet "4% Pantomime" (which he co-wrote with Robbie Robertson), Richard Manuel calls him, "Oh, Belfast Cowboy". It would be included in an album The Band's hat. When he left the stage after performing "Caravan" on The Last Waltz, Robertson calls "Van the Man!" On July 21, 1990, Morrison joined many other guests Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall – Live in Berlin with an estimated crowd of between three hundred thousand to half a million people and broadcast live on television. He sang "Comfortably Numb" with Roger Waters, and several members of the band, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko. At the end of concert he and the other performers sang "The tide is turning." Morrison performed before an estimated audience of 60 to 80,000 people when U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 30, 1995. His song "Days Like This" had become the official anthem for the Northern Ireland Peace Movement. Van Morrison 2000s remained performing concerts throughout the year instead of touring. Playing some of his most famous songs in concert, he has firmly resisted relegation to a nostalgia act. During a 2006 interview he told Paul Sexton: I do not really tour. This is another misconception. I stopped touring in the true sense of the word in late 1970 and early 1980, possible. I do gigs now. I average two gigs a week. Only in America can I do more, because you can not really have a few gigs there, so I do more, or 10 gigs. something Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008 with the title track, "Astral Weeks (I think I've surpassed) with the opening words:" If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream "shows" a deep, roaring louder than the blue-eyed soul voice of his childhood softer on the diction, but impressive nonetheless powerful. "Problems listening to this file? See media help. On 7 and 8 November 2008, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, Morrison performed the entire album Astral Weeks live for the first time. The Astral Weeks band Featured guitarist Jay Berliner, who played on the album, which was forty years earlier in November 1968 released. Also heard was Roger Kellaway on piano. A live album, titled Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl due to these two performances. The new live album on CD was released on February 24, 2009, followed by a DVD of the performances. The DVD, Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The concert film was released exclusively through Amazon on May 19, 2009. Morrison Astral week began one week of live concerts, interviews and TV appearances with concerts at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City in late February 2009 and at the Beacon Theatre in early March with twenty-four minute interview with Don Imus on his Imus in the Morning radio show on February 26. Listen mid scheduled concerts at the Beacon WaMu and made a guest appearance on the debut of Jimmy Fallon's show as presenter of the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on March 2, 2009 performing "Sweet Thing" from the album Astral Weeks. Morrison also performed 'Sweet Thing' and 'Brown Eyed Girl, "on Live with Regis and Kelly the next morning on March 3, 2009. Morrison Astral Weeks continues with performances with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London in April and then returned to California in May 2009 the implementation of the Astral Weeks songs on the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley and the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Morrison filmed concerts at the Orpheum Theatre, so they could be viewed by Farrah Fawcett, bedridden with cancer and who therefore could not attend the concerts. On May 6, 2009, Morrison appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performing the updated version of "Slim Slow Slider (I Start Breaking Down)" Astral Weeks Live at Hollywood Bowl. In addition on the It's Too Late to stop now and Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Morrison has released three live albums: Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast in 1984; A Night San Francisco in 1994 that Rolling Stone magazine felt stood out as "the pinnacle of a career's worth of soul searching that finds Morrison's eyes turned toward the sky and his feet firmly on the ground ", and the Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998 recorded with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber and released in early 2000. A documentary film released in 2010 the right to be born again will be a year full of images function Morrison Astral Weeks live performances, rehearsals and interviews starting with the Hollywood Bowl concerts in November 2008 and runs through the 2009 years of live performances of songs from the album. It will be ninety to one hundred twenty minutes long and will be directed by Morrison Together with filmmaker Darren Doane. Morrison was scheduled to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of the 25th anniversary concert on October 30, 2009, but canceled. In an interview on October 26, Morrison told his host Don Imus that he had planned to play "a few songs" with Eric Clapton (who had canceled on October 22 due to gallstone surgery), but that they would do something together "a different stage of the". Game Alliances In the years 1990, Morrison developed a close association with two vocal talents at opposite ends of their careers: Georgie Fame (with whom Morrison had occasionally worked) lent his voice and Hammond organ skills to the band of Morrison, Brian Kennedy singing a supplement to the gray voice of Morrison, both in the studio and live performances. And the year 1990 also saw an increase in collaboration with other artists by Morrison, a trend is in the new millennium. He took the Irish folk band The Chieftains on their 1995 album, The Long Black Veil. Morrison song, "Have I Told You Lately" was a Grammy Award Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals win in 1996. He also produced and was featured on several tracks with blues legend John Lee Hooker on Hooker's 1997 album, Do not Look back. This album would win a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1998 and the title song "Do not Look Back", a duet with Morrison and Hooker would also win a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" in 1998. Morrison also collaborating with Tom Jones on his 1999 album Reload, performing a duet on "Sometimes We Cry, "and he also sang vocals on a track titled" The Last Laugh "Mark Knopfler Sailing to Philadelphia album in 2000. In 2004, Morrison was one of the guests at the Ray Charles album "Genius Loves Company, the two artists Morrison's" Crazy Love ". Music Singing With his characteristic growl mix of folk, blues, soul, jazz, gospel, and Ulster Scots Celtic influencesorrison is widely regarded by many rock historians as one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll. Critic Greil Marcus has gone so far as to say that "no white man sings like Van Morrison." As Morrison live performances by the 40-year-old album Astral Weeks began in 2008, were comparisons with his youthful voice 1968.is early voting was described as "harsh and tender, praying and complaining." Forty years later, the difference in his vocal range and power were felt, but critics and critic of the responses were positive: "Morrison's voice has grown into his frame to fill. A deeper, louder roar than the blue-eyed soul voice of his childhood softer on the diction, but still impressively powerful "Morrison also commented on the changes in his approach to singing." The approach is to sing from lower [diaphragm], so I do not screw up my voice I used to sing in the upper part of my throat, which tends to wreck the vocal cords over time. Singing from the lower abdomen in my late resonance too far. I can stand four feet of a microphone and be heard resonantely altogether. "Songwriting and lyrics Morrison wrote hundreds of songs during his career with a recurring theme because of a nostalgic longing for the carefree days of his childhood in Belfast. Some of his famous song titles derive locations in its infancy as "Cyprus Avenue" (a nearby street), "Orange Field" (the boys school he attended), "On Hyndford Street" (Where he was born). Also often present in the Morrison's best love songs is a mixture of the sacred-profane, as evidenced by "Into the Mystic" and "So Quiet in Here. "Beginning with his 1979 album, the music and the song" And the healing has begun, "a common theme of his music and lyrics is based on his belief in the healing power of music with a mystical form of Christianity. This theme is one of the predominant qualities of his work. His writings show an influence of the visionary poets William Blake and WB Yeats and others, like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Biographer Brian Hinton believes "like any great poet Seamus Heaney take Blake's words back to their origin in magic … Indeed, Morrison's poetry back to the earliest roots in Homer and Old English epics such as Beowulf or the Psalms or folk song in which all words music and combine them into a new reality. "Another biographer John Collis believes that Morrison's style of jazz singing and repeating phrases his lyrics does be considered poetry or Collis says: "He is more likely to sentence a mantra, or burst into scat singing, repeat the words are often prosaic.. So little poetry can be "Morrison has described his songwriting method by saying that" I am writing from a different place. I do not even know his name or as a name. It's just me and sculpture, but it's also a lot of hard work of sculpture. "Performance style" Van Morrison is interested, obsessed with how much musical or verbal information he can compress into a small space, almost conversely, how far he can one note, word, sound or image spread. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch. He repeats certain phrases to extremes that someone else would seem ridiculous because he waiting for a vision to unfold, trying as unobtrusive as possible to divest it … It is the great quest, fueled by the belief that these musical and mental processes illumination is attainable. Or at the very least a glimpse. "Lester Bangs Critic Greil Marcus argues that, given the truly distinctive breadth and complexity of the work of Morrison, it is almost impossible to work back to below that of others: "Morrison remains a singer who can compare to no other in the history of rock & roll, a singer who can not be pinned down, dismissed, or provide for the expectations of someone "Or in the words of Jay Cocks'. It extends only to express themselves. Only among rock's great figuresnd even in that company, he is one of the greatestorrison is adamantly inward. And unique. Although it is fairly musical boundaries. and B., Celtic melodies, jazz, rock rave-up, hymns, down-and-dirty blues can flawlessly found in the same strange place:. on his own wavelength "His transcendental characteristic style came into full expression to his 1968 classic, this musical art Astral Weeks. form was based on the stream of consciousness, emotional songwriting and vocalizing of texts no basis in the normal structure or symmetry. His live performances are dependent on building dynamics with spontaneity between him and his band, he gestures with hand controls throughout, sometimes signaling improvised solos from a selected member. The music and vocals build into a hypnotic and trance-like state that is dependent on in-the-moment creativity. He said that he believes the jazz improvisational technique of performing of a song never the same way twice, except for the unique rendition of the song Astral Weeks Live, a concert does not run a predetermined set list. Morrison has said he prefers to perform on smaller stages or symphony halls known for its excellent acoustics. Achoholic its ban on beverages, which made news in 2008, was an attempt to the disruptive and distracting movement of members of the audience leaving their seats during the representations. In 2009 an interview, Morrison stated: .. "I deliberately not intended that the listener take it anywhere If anything, I aim to it myself in my music if the listener catches the wave length of what I'm saying or singing, or receive any point that line means to them, I think as a writer I could have done one days work. "The Genre music of Van Morrison covers many genres from his early days as a blues and R & B singer in Belfast. Over the years he has recorded songs from a changing list of influences from many genres and interests. As a blues and R & B, his compositions and covers are moved between pop, jazz, rock, folk, country, gospel, Irish folk and traditional, big band, skiffle, rock and roll, new age, classical, and sometimes spoken word ("Coney Island ") and instrumentals. Morrison describes herself as a soul singer. Some of Morrison's music is classified into a genre of its own and designated as" Celtic Soul " or what biographer Brian Hinton intended as a new alchemy called "Caledonian soul." Another biographer, Ritchie Yorke Morrison quoted as believing that he was "the spirit of Caledonia in his soul and his music reflects it. "According to Yorke, Morrison claimed to have discovered" a certain quality of the soul "when he first visited Scotland (his ancestors were of Belfast Ulster Scots descent) and Morrison said he believes there is a link between soul music and Caledonia. Yorke says Morrison "Discovered a few years after he first began composing music that some of his songs lend themselves to a unique large-scale modal (no seventh), is obviously same scale as that used by pipers and ancient Irish and Scottish folk music. "The name Caledonia" Caledonia "is a prominent role in life Morrison and careers. Biographer Ritchie Yorke had already noted in 1975 that Morrison has referred Caledonia so often in his career that he "seems to be obsessed with the word. 'In his 2009 biography, Erik Hagen found that "Morrison seemed very interested in his father's Scottish roots in his early career, and later in the old landscape of England, hence his repeated use of the term Caledonia (an old Roman name for Scotland / Northern England). "Besides the fact that his daughter's middle name, it is the name of his first production company, his studio, his publishing house, two of his backing group, and he also took a cover of the song, "Caldonia" (named spelled "Caledonia") in 1974. Morrison uses "Caledonia" in what was called a typical moment in the Van Morrison song, "Listen to the Lion 'with the text: "And we sail and we sail up to Caledonia." Only in 2008, Morrison uses "Caledonia" as a mantra in the live performance of the song, " Astral Weeks "recorded at the two Hollywood Bowl concerts. Influence Morrison influence is easily heard in the music of a variety of great artists and according to The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll's (Simon & Shuster, 2001), "his influence among rock singers / songwriters is unmatched by any living artist outside that other prickly legend Bob Dylan. Echoes of rough ness literate Morrison and his grumpy, feverish emotional vocals can be heard in the last day icons ranging Bruce Springsteen to Elvis Costello "His influence includes U2 (much of The Unforgettable Fire). Bono (" I am impressed by a musician like Van Morrison. I had to stop listening to Van Morrison records about six months before we made The Unforgettable Fire because I do not want to be very original voice to my own soul to master "). John Mellencamp ("Wild Night"), Jim Morrison, Joan Armatrading (the only musical influence she will recognize), Rod Stewart, Tom Petty, Rickie Lee Jones (recognizes both Laura Nyro and Van Morrison as the main influences on her career), Elton John, Graham Parker, Sinad O'Connor, Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, Bob Seger ("I know that Bruce Springsteen was very much influenced by Van Morrison, and so was I. "Interview of Creme) (" I have been working "), Dexys Midnight Runners (" Jackie Wilson Said "), Jimi Hendrix (" Gloria "), Jeff Buckley (" the way young Lovers Do, "" Sweet Thing "), Nick Drake and many others, including the Counting Crows (their "sha-la-la" sequence in Mr Jones, is a tribute to Morrison) Morrison influence. achieved in the country music, Hal Ketchum recognize "He (Van Morrison) was a big influence in my life." Morrison's influence on the younger generation of singer-songwriters is everywhere: including the Irish singer Damien Rice, as described on his way to becoming the "natural heir to Van Morrison", Ray Lamontagne, James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, Eric Lindell and David Gray are also a number of younger artists influenced by Morrison. Glen Hansard of Irish band The Frames (which lists as part of Van Morrison of his holy trinity with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen) cover songs are generally in concert. American rock band, The Wallflowers are "Into the Mystic". Canadian blues-rock singer Colin James also relates to the song at his concerts frequently. Actor and musician Robert Pattinson said that Van Morrison was his "influence on making music in the first place ". Morrison has shared the stage with Northern Irish singer-songwriter Duke Special, who admits Morrison is a big influence. In general, Morrison typically supports other artists, often willingly share the stage with during his concerts. On the live album, A Night in San Francisco, he had as his special guests, including his childhood idols, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Lee Hooker and Junior Wells. Although he often expresses his displeasure (in interviews and songs) with the music industry and media in the Generally, he has played in promoting the careers of many other musicians and singers such as James Hunter, and fellow Belfast born brothers, Brian and Bap Kennedy. Personal Morrison lived in Belfast life from birth until 1967, when he moved to New York after signing with Bang Records. Facing eviction due to visa problems, he succeeded managed to stay in the U.S. and his American girlfriend Janet (Planet) Rigsbee agreed to marry him. Once married, Morrison and his wife moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he found work performing in local clubs. The couple had a daughter, Shana Morrison, who has become a singer-songwriter. Morrison and his family moved around America, lives in Boston, Woodstock, New York, and a hilltop home in Fairfax, California. His wife appeared on the cover of the album Tupelo Honey. They divorced in 1973. Morrison moved back to Europe in the late 70s, the first branch in London's Notting Hill Gate area. Later he moved to Bath, where he bought Wool Hall Studios. He also has a house in the Irish coastal town of Dalkey, near Dublin. Morrison met Irish socialite Michelle Rocca in the summer of 1992, and they are often included in the Dublin gossip columns, an unusual event for the reclusive Morrison. Rocca also appeared on one of his album covers, Days Like This. The couple are married and have two children, a daughter was born in January 2006 and a son was born in September 2007. Discography Main article: Discography Van Morrison Blowin 'Your Mind! (1967) Astral Weeks (1968) Moondance (1970) His Band and the Street Choir (1970) Tupelo Honey (1971) Saint Dominic's Preview (1972) Hard Nose the Highway (1973) It's Too Late to stop now (Live) (1974) Veedon Fleece (1974) a transitional period (1977) Wavelength (1978) Into the Music (1979) Common One (1980) Beautiful Vision (1982) Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983) Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (1984) A Sense of Wonder (1984) No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (1986) Poetic Champions Compose (1987) Irish Heartbeat (1988) Avalon Sunset (1989) Lighting (1990) hymns to the Silence (1991) too long in Exile (1993) A Night in San Francisco (Live) (1994) Days Like This (1995) How long has this Been Going On (1996) Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison (1996) The Healing Game (1997) Back On Top (1999) The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998 (2000) You Win Again (2000) Down the Road (2002) What's wrong with this picture? (2003) Magic Time (2005) Pay the Devil (2006) Live at Austin City Limits Festival (Limited Edition) (2006) Keep It Simple (2008) Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2009) Awards and recognition Morrison has a number of major music awards in his career, including six Grammy Awards (19962007), inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (January 1993), the Songwriters Hall of Fame (June 2003), and the Irish Music Hall of Fame (September 1999) and a Brit Award (February 1994). He also received Civil awards an OBE (June 1996) and an Officier de lrdre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996), and he has honorary doctorates from the University of Ulster (1992) and Queen's University Belfast (July 2001). (The Grammy Awards were: Best Pop Collaboration with vocals, 1996, "Have I Told you Lately" (with The Chieftains) Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 1998, "Do not Look Back" (with John Lee Hooker) Hall of Fame, 1999, Astral Weeks Hall of Fame, 1999, Moon Dance Hall of Fame, 1999, "Gloria" Hall of Fame, 2007, "Brown Eyed Girl" The Hall of Fame inductions began in 1993 with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Morrison notable for being the first person called inappropriate own ceremony, so Robbie Robertson of The Band accepted the award on his behalf. When Morrison became the first musician inducted into the Irish Music Hall of Fame, Bob Geldof presented Morrison with the award. Morrison was taken third induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame "recognition of his unique position as one of the most important songwriters of the past century. "Ray Charles presented the award after a performance in which the pair performed Morrison's" Crazy Love "from the album, Moondance. Morrison BRIT Award was for his outstanding contribution to British music. He was presented with the award by former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, during the testimony of the importance of Morrison song, "Wonderful Remark" called it "a song … that was very important to us." Morrison received two civilian awards in 1996, the First, the Order of the British Empire for his services to music, the second was an award from the French government when he was an Officier de lrdre des Arts et des Lettres made. Along with these state awards, he has two honorary doctorates in music, an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Ulster, and an honorary doctorate in music from Queen's University in his hometown of Belfast. among other awards, the BMI ICON award in October 2004 for Morrison's "lasting influence on generations of music makers, an Oscar Wilde: Honouring Irish Writing in Film Award in 2007 for his contribution to over fifty films, presented by Al Pacino, who compared Morrison to Oscar Wilde as they are both "visionaries those boundaries, and the best international male singer of 2007 on the inaugral International Awards in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London Morrison. has also been published Greatest in some lists, including the Time magazine list of 100 all-time albums, that Astral Weeks and Moondance contained, and he appeared at number thirteen on the list of WXPN's 885 All Time Greatest Artists. In 2000, Morrison ranked five twentieths on American cable music channel VH1 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll". In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Van Morrison forty-second on their list of "Greatest Artists of All Time". Paste ranked him twentieth in their list of "100 Greatest Living Songwriters "in 2006. Q ranked him twenty-second on their list of" 100 Greatest Singers "in April 2007 and was elected in November four twentieths 2008 List of Rolling Stone magazine's 100 greatest singers of all time. Three of Morrison's songs were included in the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll: Brown Eyed Girl, "" Madame George "and" Moondance. " Morrison has been announced as one of the 2010 honorees included in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. See also the list of people on stamps of Ireland notes abc ^ Ankeny, Jason. allmusic.com "Van Morrison biography". http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifuxqygldhe T1 ~ allmusic.com. 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Dolls dress & headband 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $17.18

Dolls dress & Panties17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc OOAK $17.18

Baby girls dolls dress 0-3m 20/22″ fits reborn, Drake, Berenguer $17.18

Dolls dress and panties 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $17.18

Dolls dress and panties 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $17.18

Dolls dress and bonnet 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $17.18

Baby girls dolls dress 0-3m 20/22″ fits reborn, Drake, Berenguer $17.18

Dolls clothes DRESS 17/19 fits reborn, Ashton Drake, Berenguer $15.62

Dolls dress & headband 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $15.62

CROCHET BOOTIES FOR BABY OR ASHTON DRAKE REBORN DOLL $14.95

CROCHET BLUE BOOTIES FOR BABY ASHTON DRAKE REBORN DOLL $14.95

Dolls dress 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer ETC $15.62

DUCK COSTUME HAT, MITTENS & BOOTIES FOR BABY OR ASHTON DRAKE REBORN DOLL $9.95

Dolls dress & headband 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $12.49

Knitted 4 piece PASTEL LACE PRAM SET for 10″ REBORN BABY GIRL/ASHTON DRAKE/EMMY $9.68

Dolls dress & headband 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $10.46

Dolls dress and panties17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $7.80

Dolls dress & headband 17/19 fits reborn Ashton Drake Berenguer etc – NEW $7.80

Life Like Reborn Baby – Ashton Drake Galleries (ADG) $125.00

REDUCED – ASHTON DRAKES SO TRULY REAL IRIS BABY DOLL FOR COLLECTING OR REBORNING $79.99

Huti Picture-Perfect Reborn Tinneke Janssens Baby Girl Doll by Ashton Drake ADG $49.99

DRESS SET FOR A 15/18″ASHTON DRAKE /BERENGUER DOLL $10.93

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