Van Morrison sets the record straight

Van Morrison is promising to set the record straight about his career by writing his autobiography.

Irked by a succession of unofficial biographies about him, the singer says: “The main purpose is to dispel the myths, because those myths are too much to live up to. You get biographies, which claim to be about me. They come up with stories and some of it’s partial truth, some of it’s completely made up. They interview people from years ago who know nothing about me now and probably didn’t know much about me then.

“Then there’s books that say things about my music, like they know where the songs have come from. I want to expose all that.”

His announcement comes in the same week that Johnny Rogan’s less than flattering Van Morrison: No Surrender hits the shelves here.