When Van Morrison was an orange-haired lad of 18, he punched out one of the era’s biggest pop hits, Gloria, with an Irish band called Them, thus helping to lead the British rock invasion.

Van Morrison has a strange way of saying good night. The Irish rock-and-soul icon finished his 90-minute set at a sold-out GM Place on a high note, with kicking versions of his late-'60s hits ...

Born George Ivan Morrison in Belfast in 1945, Morrison shot to fame in the mid-1960s as lead singer of the Northern Ireland band Them, with which he recorded his classic song Gloria.

“Gloria” is Van Morrison’s big bang and something he’d written and sung since he was 18. Early on, Morrison would ad-lib lyrics, stretching the improvisations like a jazz musician.

The album avoids Van the Man's best-known songs, meaning that there's no "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Gloria." Instead, it features a selection of lesser-known faves from throughout his career.

Smith idolised Jim Morrison and knew “Gloria” well enough. She gave her version a subtitle, “In Excelsis Deo”, and made it the first track on Horses, her influential debut album from 1975.

Author of both the mid-’60s garage-punk nugget, Gloria, and the improvised hippie-era jazz-rock suite, Astral Weeks, Van Morrison, has beaten a somewhat erratic path across the ensuing decades ...

The original five-member band consisted of Van, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison, and Eric Wrixon. The boys enjoyed success with hits such as ‘Gloria’ and ‘Here Comes The Night’.