Van To Be Interviewed On CBS' Sunday Morning
Imus.com: CBS News's Anthony Mason on "Astral Weeks"
Broadcast is Sunday March 8th.
CBS News's Business Correspondent Anthony Mason took some time to discuss with Imus the business of Van Morrison. Reporting for CBS's Sunday Morning show, Mason taped an interview with the legendary Morrison.
"He was saying wonderful things about you!" Mason told Imus. "He said when his country album came out a few years ago, one of the only people to play it was Imus."
Imus remarked on the stunning fact that Morrison recorded the original Astral Weeks album at the young age of 23. A live version of Astral Weeks, recorded just last year at the Hollywood Bowl, was released yesterday.
"Every time I hear, it I feel something different from it," Mason said about Astral Weeks. "It's like a really great painting-everytime you look at it, you see something new."
5 comments:
Best feature so far, in this surreal week of media for Van. He seemed relaxed and as always, very matter-of-fact.
He played a brief segment on a piano which he advised was an untitled new piece.
The concert segments appeared to be a mix of the New York and Hollywood shows, and his voice was simply an astounding rich timbre which sounded magnificent.
The early footage was a treat, as was the sweeping vignettes of sixties Belfast.
His two Hall of Fame inductions were covered, along with snippets of Ray Charles touching speech in which he told the crowd that "Van writes the most beautiful songs", and Van is simply floored by his hero's flattery.
His humor came through at the end, when pressed about Brown Eyed Girl, he allowed that it was indeed "catchy", and "it can't be bad if it makes you shake your ass".
What a wonderful week for Van and his many fans.
I want to see the interview. Any idea how I can see it? It doesn't appear to be linked on the CBS site.
Me too. I missed the show. Where is it on the web? Damn...
I have recorded it on my DVD recorder/player, but did not finalize it, and subsequently was erased, so in my search for a video of the interview, I came across the excellent version of "Sweet Thing" which Van sang on the Jimmy Fallon Show premiere on NBC. Good video. Apparently Van did not give permission to reproduce the CBS feature, so it is not on CBS Sunday videos.
good news....go to YouTube, the CBS interview is there, along with two brief live songs and a few words he exchanged on the Regis and Kelly show, also based in New York. Search Van Morrison and you will find the vids.
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