| Van Morrison – Feedback Out On Highway 101 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Just for factual purposes, Highway 101 is the interstate highway that runs the length of California, Oregon and Washington State. It sometimes conjoins with Highway 1 - the coastal route - in California, and is one and the same - at some points - as the El Camino REal, the old spanish trail that links the various spanish missions and military presidios in California. 101 wraps along the San Francisco Bay from San Jose to San Francisco, joins Highway 1 as it crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and runs through Marin County where Morrison lived, early on, in the town of Fairfax. 101 is a heavy commuter corridor to and from San Francisco, as it runs through these 'bedroom communities' | |
| Van Morrison – Avalon Of The Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Tudor-Pole and Dion Fortune were responsible for something called the 'minute of silence' during the Nazi onslaught of WWII. Simply, it called upon every English person to stop for one minute - I think it was at noon - and for that one minute to be entirely quiet, to embody peace, as it were. It was a very very popular action with large portions of the populatin cooperating. And it confused the living daylights out of the Nazis who had spies telling them of this. The Nazis felt certain that the English had some special mind-control weappon they were using against them! In another song - Summer in England - Morrison speaks of St. John's, which is the old church in Glastonbury, built upon the fabled final resting spot of St Joseph of Aremethia, who brought Christianity to England. |
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| Van Morrison – Avalon Of The Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I should also add that the line 'Avalon of the Heart' is also the title of a book by Dion Fortune, an occult writer, one-time resident of Glastonbury and colleague of Wesley Tudor-Pole. the book describes that area of Somerset quite poignantly. | |
| Van Morrison – Avalon Of The Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought I would add some factual insights here that might enrich the meaning of this song for you, as well as a few others Morrison wrote along the same theme. In Somerset, England, the hill town of Glastonbury, rising in the Somerset Levels, is legendarily held to be the site of the Sacred Isle of Avalon. There, in the Chalice Well Garden, in the second story of the small stone cottage once owned by the mystic, Wellesly Tudor-Pole, is a tableaux of a vision Tudor-Pole had of the Last Supper, complete with a chalice. You can find out more at the Chalice Well website. About 10 miles away, near the hamlets of Queen's Cam and Courton Denhem is Cadbury Castle, a fortified mound, much like Old SArum, which archaeologists have been studying as the possible site of the historic Camelot. You can find more information by checking out 'The Isle of Avalon' website. Morrison has written a few lyrics about Somerset and GLastonbury. |
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