from the album, Moondance. Morrison’s BRIT Award was for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. He was presented with the award by former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, who while testifying to the importance of Morrison’s song, “Wonderful Remark” called it “a song … which was very important to us.”
Morrison received two civil awards in 1996, first was the Order of the British Empire for his service to music, the second was an award by the French government when he was made an Officier de lrdre des Arts et des Lettres. Along with these state awards he has two honorary degrees in music; an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Ulster, and an honorary doctorate in music from Queen’s University in his hometown of Belfast.
Among other awards are the BMI ICON award in October 2004 for Morrison’s “enduring influence on generations of music makers”; an Oscar Wilde: Honouring Irish Writing in Film award in 2007 for his contribution to over fifty films, presented by Al Pacino who compared Morrison to Oscar Wilde as they were both “visionaries who push boundaries”; and the Best International Male Singer of 2007 at the inaugral International Awards in Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London.
Morrison has also appeared in a number of Greatest lists, including the Time magazine list of The All-Time 100 Albums, which contained Astral Weeks and Moondance, and he appeared at number thirteen on the list of WXPN’s 885 All Time Greatest Artists. In 2000, Morrison ranked twenty-fifth on American cable music channel VH1’s list of its “100 Greatest Artists of Rock and Roll”. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Van Morrison forty-second on their list of “Greatest Artists of All Time”. Paste ranked him twentieth in their list of “100 Greatest
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