![]() ![]() Michelle softened Van, made him likeable in company, more open and trusting. She had also been immortalised on the cover of the No Prima Donna album in 1994. One commentator compared famous recluse Van on the cover of his 1995 album Days Like This - walking the dogs with Michelle - as "almost a Hello! magazine moment". "Anyone can sing!" Van declared as we all looked on, apart from Michelle who insisted Van continue the singing lessons. One night in the Conrad Hilton in Dublin, after a show at the National Concert Hall across the road, Michelle had Van gave an impromptu singing lesson to her mother, Maureen, and other guests, among them actress Alison Doody's mother, Joan.Ĭlose bond: Violet Morrison, Van Morrison’s mother, entertains members of the Age Concern Day Centre at North Road, Belfast in 2003 He did things around her that none of us could have scarcely imagined Van Morrison doing, because he was mad about her. The point was, Van was seldom - if ever - any of those things around his raven-haired inamorata, Miss Ireland 1980. ![]() "There was one time Van didn't say a word for three days," Jackie McAuley of Them (Van's group from 1964 to 1966) recalled in Johnny Rogan's book Van Morrison: No Surrender. (and) I feel p****d off now that I know about it." "For years people have been saying to me - you know, nudge, nudge - 'Have you heard this guy Springsteen'," he said to The New Age magazine in 1985. Pre-Michelle, Van was a world-class moaner. Salman also noted that Van "has been known to get a little grumpy towards the end of a long evening". This was in stark contrast to the irascible curmudgeon, short of leg and temper, whom author Salman Rushdie once wrote of meeting late one night in Bono's house in Killiney and being allegedly "treated to the rough edge of the great man's tongue". ![]() Van appeared to be on his best behaviour with Michelle as an influence, as a girlfriend. Van was the emotional rock who stood by Michelle when she took Cathal Ryan to the High Court in 1997. If Michelle was good for him, Van was not without his qualities either. He was good with Michelle's three young kids (Danielle and Natasha by ex-Arsenal footballer John Devine, and Claudia by Cathal Ryan, son of Ryanair founder Tony Ryan). Thanks to Michelle (and her friend, fashion director Ian Galvin), Van dressed better and, around her, appeared less of the grump of international legend. We all ended up in Lillie's nightclub on Grafton Street before going to a house party on Park Avenue in Sandymount until dawn, a party at which Van played guitar and serenaded the woman with whom he was so transparently in love. He was, of course, an absolute gentleman to Michelle, even when she scowled at him when he suggested we split the sizeable bill at the end of a two-hour meal. #VAN MORRISON SOMEONE LIKE YOU FREE#Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up Daily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter ![]()
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