• Brian Hinton, MBE (born 21 September 1950) is an English poet and musicologist. In June 2006 he was honoured in H. M. the Queen's Birthday Honours List...
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    Morrison was noted by John Densmore in his book Riders on the Storm. Brian Hinton relates how "Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near namesake's stagecraft...
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  • Who Knows Where The Time Goes". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2017. Brian Hinton and Geoff Wall, Ashley Hutchings: The Authorised Biography – The Guv’nor...
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  • song and the album as a whole. The song was considered by musicologist Brian Hinton as a tribute to pianist and singer-songwriter, Fats Domino. As with "Domino"...
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  • the words, "You can leave now if you don't like what is happening." Brian Hinton compares "the delighted contempt of the singer, the song's graveyard...
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    album Poetic Champions Compose. In his rendition, writes biographer Brian Hinton, "it is 'Mother Ireland' whom Van is missing and his world weary vocals...
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  • 1970) by Brian Hinton, 72 pages, 1990 – ISBN 0-906328-46-2 Message To Love: "The Isle of Wight Festivals 1968 – 1969 – 1970", by Brian Hinton, 191 pages...
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  • released as a bonus track on the 2008 re-mastered version of Veedon Fleece, Brian Hinton had said about the version of the song on The Philosopher's Stone: "'Twilight...
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    Van's influence on Jim's developing stage performance was later noted by Brian Hinton in his book Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison: "Jim Morrison...
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  • described by Brian Hinton: "It is an album which is more than the sum of its parts, exuding an overall sense of calm and optimism." According to Hinton, "Spanish...
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    clubs Australian Club Web Site Home page Angel, J. R; Fletcher, Brian H. (Brian Hinton), 1931-2018 (2013), The Australian Club : 1828-2013, Allen & Unwin...
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  • going to Canada and that's about it. The song is basically about dreams. Brian Hinton goes on to say, "Nightmares more like, with Van's lover telling lies...
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  • there, to rejoin the living, because 'the cool room is a fool's room'. Brian Hinton described the song's music: "Here is a Dickensian tale of death and decay...
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  • summer 1988 at Eden Studios in London with Mick Glossop as engineer. Brian Hinton gave his interpretation of the song and lyrics as: "In 'Orangefield'...
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  • singer having "settled into a life of domestic bliss". Musicologist Brian Hinton argued that Morrison was celebrating a "natural alternative" in his music...
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  • vocals, creates a relatively unusual combination of stylistic elements. Brian Hinton believes that "The song is about growing up, an adolescent first kiss...
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  • some sort of self-imposed therapy and having to go on no matter what. Brian Hinton remarks, "There is a grace and majesty here which I have experienced...
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    Sir Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal rights activist and astrophysicist. He achieved...
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  • sailed and we sailed and we sailed and we sailed... way up to Caledonia." Brian Hinton described the song: "We are back in Astral Weeks territory, a bass led...
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    ISBN 978-0906008461 Hinton, B. and Wall, G. (2002) Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor & the Rise of Folk Rock. London: Helter Skelter, ISBN 978-1900924320 Brian Hinton & Geoff...
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  • 1993 compilation album The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two. Biographer Brian Hinton comments "'Enlightenment' is actually the opposite of what it sounds:...
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  • chorus with accent lines supporting Morrison's infectious harmonies." Brian Hinton, in reviewing the song notes that "Glad Tidings" seemed to be addressing...
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  • jazz-flavored cut that, is uncomfortably out of place on this record". Brian Hinton describes it as there being "a Sinatra strut to Van's voice, a blues...
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  • lyrics include images of Wordsworth and Coleridge "smokin' up in Kendal" (Brian Hinton says they are "smokin' with poetry not spliffs"). It ends with the music...
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  • quality control and "shoddy packaging", according to Morrison biographer Brian Hinton. Beautiful Vision received acclaim from contemporary critics. In a review...
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  • into a kind of chunky R&B." The song, "Joyous Sound" is described by Brian Hinton as "more like the real Van as he starts to wail and the lyrics describe...
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  • California, with Mick Glossop as engineer. According to biographer Brian Hinton it is "an answer in song to 'The Dark End of the Street' and it is wonderfully...
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  • California in spring 1979 with Mick Glossop acting as engineer. Biographer Brian Hinton calls it the central song in the album and perhaps in Morrison's whole...
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  • with Morrison in the 1970s and he regularly performed it in concert. Brian Hinton writes that Morrison later admitted that he had written this song "for...
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    William Howard Hinton (Chinese: 韩丁; pinyin: Hán Dīng; February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American intellectual, best known for his work on Communism...
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