Can You Feel the Silence?: Van Morrison: A New Biography - Tapa dura

""The most authoritative to date. ... Absorbing, intriguing, thought-provoking."

"Absorbing, intriguing, thought-provoking, ["Can You Feel The Silence" is] overflowing with interviews from across the Morrison time spectrum." --Johnny Rogan, author, "Morrissey & Marr" and "Timeless Flight"
Absorbing, intriguing, thought-provoking, ["Can You Feel The Silence" is] overflowing with interviews from across the Morrison time spectrum. Johnny Rogan, author, "Morrissey & Marr" and "Timeless Flight"
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Heylin is a thorough biographer [who allows] a picture [to] emerge of a man to whom the world is either an audience, or it is nothing. Charles Shaar Murray, author, "Crosstown Traffic"
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"Entreatingly chatty . . . Deepens the enigma and gives the tortured genius myth a kick in the Astral Weeks." --Village Voice


"Absorbing, intriguing, thought-provoking, [Can You Feel The Silence is] overflowing with interviews from across the Morrison time spectrum." --Johnny Rogan, author, Morrissey & Marr and Timeless Flight
"Heylin is a thorough biographer [who allows] a picture [to] emerge of a man to whom the world is either an audience, or it is nothing." --Charles Shaar Murray, author, Crosstown Traffic

This groundbreaking biography of a brilliant but disturbed performer explores the paradox of the man and the artist. Based on more than 100 interviews, this intelligent profile explores Morrison’s roots; the hard times he went through in London, New York, and Boston; the making of his seminal albums such as Moondance and Astral Weeks; and the disastrous business arrangements that left Morrison hungry and penniless while his songs were topping the charts. Detailed are the breakdown of Morrison’s marriage, the creative drought that followed, and his triumphant reemergence. In addition, this biography attempts to explain the forbidding aspects of Morrison's persona, such as paranoia, hard drinking, misanthropy, as well as why, in the words of his onetime singing partner Linda Gail Lewis, Morrison’s music “brings happiness to other people, not him.” Also included is a Van Morrision sessionography that spans 1964 to 2001.