The following text is taken from an Irish music magazine called New Spotlight Vol 7 Issue 7 from August 9th 1973, copied from The National Library of Ireland newspaper archive. So near and yet so far...that just about sums up the Van Morrison episode of last week. Early on the news was that he would play two concerts in the Carlton on Tuesday. The announcement brought an excitement that was nothing short of phenomenal. The sad let-down on Thursday was that he would not be coming. There was some misunderstanding about bookings and it turned out the Irishman would not be able to do a concert in New York on Monday and be here by Tuesday evening.