Van Morrison - In The Days Before Rock'n'Roll

Great music and this is an insane album. 1990 was 'a very good year' ENLIGHTENMENT indeed. 🥁🥁🎹🎹🎶🎸🎷😎🍀
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, harmonica
The Ambrosian Singers - choir, with John McCarthy as choirmaster (on 4)
Dave Bishop - soprano and baritone saxophones
Paul Durcan - spoken word (on 7)
Dave Early - drums (except on 4, 10)
Georgie Fame - electric piano, hammond organ, backing vocals
Alex Gifford - synthesizers, piano
Steve Gregory - tenor saxophone, flute
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
Bernie Holland - lead guitar (on 2, 6, 9)
Henry Lowther - trumpet (on 6, 8, 9)
Brian Odgers - bass guitar (on 2, 9)
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - piano (on 3)
Steve Pearce - bass guitar (except on 2, 9)
Frank Ricotti - vibraphone (on 8)
Steve Sanger - drums (on 4, 10)
Steve Waterman - flugelhorn (on 6, 8, 9)
Irish poet Paul Durcan, who co-wrote this song, provides the spoken vocals on this track. In 1988 Durcan wrote: "Myself, if I was Minister for Education, I'd bring in a new curriculum in the morning and top of my list would be Kavanagh and Morrison. All of Kavanagh and Morrison - not my selection or Saint Augustine's selection or Barry McGuigan's selection or Dean Martin's selection but the entire oeuvre and let the audience (students are a free audience - not a concentration camp of suitable victims) pick out what they like and what they don't like." (from "A Celebration of Van Morrison," May 1988 issue of Magill)