Hymns To The Silence; inside the words and music of Van Morrison by Peter Mills and published by Continuum is nearly 450 pages (no photos) of analysis of the soul. First of all, this is NOT a discography, you won't find track by track and guest musicians lists here. There's some interesting facts - such as "Bulbs" - that great R&B song that sort of sticks out of the "Veedon Fleece" album in a great, but weird way - was actually a song from a couple of years earlier, than Warner Brothers forced Van to include, because they didn't hear a `single' when Van turned the record in the first time. But mainly the `facts' are - what books and authors and traditional songs Van has borrowed from to write his classics.
