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Neil Young has been announced as the latest headliner for London’s BST Hyde Park 2025. Find all the details below.The Canadian singer-songwriter will return to the capital on Friday July 11 as part of his ‘Love Earth’ world tour with the Chrome Hearts.

Van Morrison has added two Scotland shows to his forthcoming 2025 UK tour. Find all the details below.The legendary singer-songwriter is due to hit the road for “a rare run of UK live performances” next month, as announced last week.

Van Morrison has announced a brief UK headline tour for next month – find all the details below.The singer-songwriter is due to hit the road for “a rare run of UK live performances”, kicking off at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham on March 18.From there, Morrison will head to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall (March 19), the New Theatre Oxford (23) and The Subscription Rooms in Stroud (24).The forthcoming tour is described as a “unique opportunity to experience Van Morrison live” in intimate, “specially selected venues”. The start time for the shows will be 8pm except for Nottingham, which will begin at 7:30pm.Tickets go on general sale at 9am GMT this Friday (February 7) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

Succession, has told NME that he’s definitely on the cast for upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.Rumours first emerged in May that he was up for the part of Jon Landau, The Boss’s longtime manager, but were never officially confirmed by Strong’s team. Now he says he’s rubber-stamped the deal – and revealed his favourite Springsteen record to boot: 1982’s stark, introspective gem ‘Nebraska’.“It just always spoke to me, there’s a melancholy to it,” he said.

Last Days Of The Space Age.Created by David Chidlow, the series follows three families in Perth in 1979 as the city gears up to host the year’s Miss Universe pageant.Other cast members include Deborah Mailman, Linh-Dan Pham, Iain Glen, George Mason, Vico Thai, and Thomas Weatherall.All eight episodes of the series were released on Disney+ in the UK on October 2.The show’s score is by Caitlin Yeo, whose past credits include Australian films such as The Rocket, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, and 2010’s Jucy.The series features many songs from the era, including tracks by the Bee Gees, Chic, and Donna Summer.

Van Morrison has announced a brand new album titled ‘New Arrangements And Duets’.The album is set for release on September 27 and will be comprised of unreleased material the Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer has had in his catalogue. According to Xsnoise, the big band tracks were recorded in 2014 with Paul Moran and Chris White individually choosing the tracks they wanted to create big band arrangements for.Announcing the album in an Instagram post, Morrison wrote: “This album represents a small percentage of the huge amount of unreleased material we are hoping to roll out in the near future, rather than letting it gather dust in some archive.”A post shared by Van Morrison (@vanmorrisonofficial)‘New Arrangements And Duets’ tracklist is :‘Ain’t Gonna Moan No More’ – with Kurt Elling‘Broken Record’ – with Kurt Elling‘Avalon of the Heart’‘Close Enough for Jazz’ – with Curtis Stigers‘I’ll Be Your Lover Too’‘Only a Dream’‘So Quiet in Here’‘Someone Like You’ – with Joss Stone‘The Beauty of the Days Gone By’‘The Master’s Eyes’‘So Complicated’‘Choppin’ Wood’‘You Gotta Make It Through the World’‘What’s Wrong With This Picture’ – with Willie Nelson‘Steal My Heart Away’ – with Willie Nelson‘New Arrangements And Duets’ will feature songs with the likes of Willie Nelson, Joss Stone, Curtis Stigers and Kurt Elling which were all recorded between 2018 and 2019.‘Choppin Wood’ was released as the album’s lead single.

Van Morrison‘s 1968 album ‘Astral Weeks’. Other non-jazz albums that featured Davis’ playing include Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘Born to Run’ (on the track ‘Meeting Across the River’), Paul Simon‘s ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ (on ‘Something So Right’) and Bo Diddley‘s ‘Where It All Began’.Davis often served as bandleader within ensembles he performed in, which includes the band put together to record ‘Astral Weeks’ with Morrison. It is believed that Davis had over 3,000 album credits across his decades as a working musician.

Ed Sheeran has spent another day in court in an ongoing plagiarism trial related to his 2015 single ‘Thinking Out Loud’, and played Van Morrison in the court room to further contest accusations that the song ripped off Marvin Gaye‘s ‘Let’s Get It On’.Back in 2016, the pop star was sued by Ed Townsend, one of the song’s co-writers, who alleged that Sheeran and co-writer Amy Wadge copied the rhythm of the 1973 song, as well as an ascending four-chord sequence. It also references “striking similarities” between the two tracks that violate the copyright.

Van Morrison has started legal proceedings against Northern Ireland’s Department Of Health and its minister, Robin Swann.In a statement to BBC News NI, Morrison’s spokesperson said: “We confirm that legal proceedings have been issued against Mr Robin Swann MLA and the Department Of Health.”It comes after they wrote an opinion piece that was published by Rolling Stone in 2020, criticising Morrison’s very public anti-lockdown coronavirus stance.In September 2020, Morrison announced plans to release three songs (‘No More Lockdown’, ‘Born to Be Free’ and ‘As I Walked Out’) in opposition to the government’s coronavirus restrictions. In ‘No More Lockdown’, Morrison reportedly claims scientists were “making up crooked facts” and likens the government to “fascist bullies”.In response, Swann wrote a piece for Rolling Stone that said “there’s a real feeling of disappointment – we expected better from him.“It’s entirely right and proper to debate and question policies.

Van Morrison‘s new track ‘Dangerous’ appears to reference the musician’s ongoing feud with Robin Swann, the Northern Ireland Minister Of Health.Last November, Swann filed a defamation lawsuit against Morrison over comments he had made regarding COVID-19 earlier in 2021.During a pre-show dinner event in Belfast in June, Morrison branded Swann “very dangerous” in a response to Swann criticising him for his anti-lockdown stance in a 2020 op-ed, in which he said Morrison’s words “will give great comfort to the conspiracy theorists”.On Friday (April 29) Morrison released ‘Dangerous’, the third single from his upcoming 43rd studio album ‘What’s It Gonna Take?’, which is due to arrive on May 20 via Exile Productions/Virgin.The almost-eight-minute number includes the lines: “Somebody said I was dangerous/ I said something bad, it must have been good.” Later, Morrison tells this listener that he “was just looking for the evidence” and asks for “proof“.You can listen to the song below.Per his official website,  the forthcoming ‘What’s It Gonna Take?’ “features fifteen new Van Morrison compositions that collectively reflect the artist’s indefatigable drive to record and perform live in front of audiences.”The album also includes the songs ‘Fighting Back Is The New Normal’, ‘Fodder For The Masses’, ‘Can’t Go On This Way’ and ‘Damage And Recovery’.In response to Swann taking legal action last year, representatives for Morrison said their client “regrets that Mr Swann considered it necessary to issue proceedings” and that they were “disappointed by the publicity that surrounds the issue”.Regarding a planned defence for the singer, they said: “Mr Morrison asserts within that defence that the words used by him related to a matter of

government’s announcement yesterday to delay the easing of coronavirus restrictions until July 19.The three-day, multi-stage festival celebrating Americana and country music, held at Eridge Park in Kent, was due to take place on the weekend of June 25-27.Van Morrison, Frank Turner and Saving Grace featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian were due to headline this year’s event along with Foy Vance, Band Of Skulls, John Smith, Wildwood Kin, Declan O’Rourke, William The Conqueror, Bess Atwell and more.But organisers have confirmed the event will not go ahead and they will now be looking to stage the bash in 2022.In a statement on Instagram they said: “We can’t quite put into words how we are feeling right now.