It's Too Late to Stop Now
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| Live album by Van Morrison | ||||
| Released | February 1974 Reissued January 2008 |
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| Recorded | 24 May – 24 July 1973 in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and London | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, R&B, rock, blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | 92:33 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Van Morrison, Ted Templeman | |||
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| Singles from It's Too Late to Stop Now | ||||
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| bbc.co.uk | (not rated) |
| Robert Christgau | (A) |
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It's Too Late to Stop Now is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music). Frequently named as one of the best live albums ever recorded, It's Too Late to Stop Now was recorded during what has often been said to be Morrison's greatest phase as a live performer.
The double album is composed of performances that were recorded in concerts at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, California, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and at the Rainbow in London from a three-month tour with his eleven-piece band, the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, from May to July 1973.
Noted for being a mercurial and temperamental live performer, during this short period of time in 1973, Morrison went on one of his most diligent tours in years. With his eleven-piece band, The Caledonia Soul Orchestra, which included a horn and string section, he has often been said to have been at his live performing peak.
Morrison said about touring during this period:
I am getting more into performing. It's incredible. When I played Carnegie Hall in the fall something just happened. All of a sudden I felt like 'you're back into performing' and it just happened like that...A lot of times in the past I've done gigs and it was rough to get through them. But now the combination seems to be right and it's been clicking a lot.
It's like watching a tiger. The tiger isn't thinking about where he's going to put his paws or how he's going to kill... and [it's the] same thing with Van. He's just so there that you're completely drawn to it.
Evidence of his newly invigorated joy in performing was on display during the ending of the over-ten-minute-long dynamic performance of "Cyprus Avenue". When an audience member shouts out, "Turn it on!", Morrison good-naturedly replies, "It's turned on already." At the very end he finished the concert with a final heartfelt, "It's too late to stop now!" giving the album its title (this line first appeared on the song "Into the Mystic").
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