And the Healing Has Begun

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Name = And the Healing Has Begun


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Artist = Van Morrison
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Album = Into the Music
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Released = August 1979
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Recorded = Spring 1979
Genre = Celtic
Folk rock
Pop rock
Length = 7:59
Writer = Van Morrison
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Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Van Morrison
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Tracks =
#"Bright Side of the Road" – 3:47
#"Full Force Gale" – 3:14
#"Stepping Out Queen" – 5:28
#"Troubadours" – 4:41
#"Rolling Hills" – 2:53
#"You Make Me Feel So Free" – 4:09
#"Angeliou" – 6:48
#"And the Healing Has Begun" – 7:59
#"It's All in the Game" (Dawes/Sigman) – 4:39
#"You Know What They're Writing About" – 6:10
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Misc = "And the Healing Has Begun" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his 1979 album, "Into the Music".

Biographer Brian Hinton calls it the central song in the album and 'perhaps in Morrison's whole career. "It starts just like 'Cyprus Avenue', no coincidence as the line about 'songs from way back when' hints, and with a walk down the avenue (of dreams), to the sound of a haunted violin. A song of full, blazing sex as well as revelation. The healing here is like that in Arthurian myth, the wounded King restored through the action of the Holy Grail, but it is also through as graphic a seduction, almost, as the original live version of "Gloria"'. [Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p. 221]

Author Clinton Heylin concludes that "what makes the song, and indeed "Into the Music" work is its self-awareness. Gone is the awkward self-consciousness...It is replaced by a newly assured tone, born of a genuine awareness of what he (Morrison) was attempting." [Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p.351]

Personnel on original release

*Van Morrison: vocals, guitar
*John Allair: organ
*Herbie Armstrong: guitar
*David Hayes: bass guitar
*Mark Jordan: piano
*Toni Marcus: violin, viola
*Peter Van Hooke: drums

Covers

:*Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová - "Once" (Collector's Edition of Original Soundtrack):*The Waterboys

Notes

References

*Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074169X
*Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7

External links

* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e Lyrics and audio samples] Into the Music 1970s