There are a lot of areas in Belfast where there was a lot of wealth and “Cyprus Avenue” is one of them. ‘”Cyprus Avenue” is a street in Belfast, a place where there’s a lot of wealth. In Ritchie Yorke’s biography Van Morrison: Into the Music, published in 1975, Van described Cyprus Avenue as follows: Van Morrison was born close to Cyprus Avenue, on Hyndford Street on 31 August 1945. And it is mentioned again in the first line of ‘Madame George’, an invocation which at once sends us whirling into Belfast’s hazy evening streets, and the strange corner of a laughter-filled room in which the titular figure mysteriously sits. The street provides the title for ‘Cyprus Avenue’, in whose anxiously surging seven minutes a man waits desperately for a glimpse of his ‘lady’, a fourteen-year-old girl with rainbow ribbons in her hair. Today was Van Morrison’s 70th birthday, and he celebrated the occasion by performing two concerts on Cyprus Avenue, the leafy street in east Belfast made famous by his 1968 album Astral Weeks.
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