You Lookin' At Me?!

Steve Winwood, Van Morrison & Robert DeNiro. Backstage At Tribeca Film Festival Concert New York City May 8th, 2004

Tribeca Film Festival
Then Van Morrison took the stage, wearing a black cashmere coat and a black fedora. It was cold out and it was windy. Van, who can sometimes be fuzzy on stage, was sharp as a tack. His set was crisp and professional. He even played sax on "Into the Mystic," sang Sinatra's "That's Life" with bravado and knocked out a beautiful rendering of his first hit, "Gloria" — all the while watching a digital clock on stage that counted down his contracted hour to the second.
When he went a few bars over, one of his staff said, "You can't believe how hard it was to get him to do this show." But by then, Van Morrison, with the voice of an Irish angel, was already in his car and buzzing out the gates, indeed into the mystic.