'I hadn’t a clue what I was doing': Van Morrison talks money and music in rare interview

"I didn’t know anything about anything, I was just spinning off the top of my head.”

'I hadn’t a clue what I was doing': Van Morrison talks money and music in rare interview

Music legend Van Morrison has opened up about his career, including his early money struggles and what keeps him working at age 73.

In a rare interview given to RTE's Miriam O'Callaghan after she tired for 20 years to secure one, he said that when the album Moondance - his third - was released and cemented his stature as a major force in music, he earned no money from it.

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