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I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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