Van has grown rich on his talent. But his working class background probably means he likes things like suede wallpaper, Australian soap operas, line dancing, pizzas, beauty pageants and other tacky things.

does anyone know if the great man likes monster trucks? I find working class people like that kind of thing.

I am working class and I like collecting beer cans, motor sport and unhealthy food. I hope Van does too.

Sounds like some people here are trying to get Van in their collecting hobby group. The only thing Van collects are fans.

Van is nouveaux riche. You can buy class. Basically you hire someone to make sure your mansion conforms to whatever notions of style are current. I would like to talk to his cook. I'm sure he hasn't left Northern Ireland's terribly unhealthy food culture behind.

Van has some issues. He needs more social skills. He has been a truculent person since childhood. Does he get therapy?

We are all inventing new rules for the new middle class in the new millennium. It's all new. I'm loving having extra money to spend on useless crap. Little decorative bits of crap. I've got a decorator which helps me get rid of some of my huge salary. It's all new with new rules. I'm loving it and macaroons. Brightly coloured girl food. Love it.

Van asks "what happened to the working class white?" That is on his 2912 album "Born to Sign".

Class isn't something you talk about - either you have it or you haven't.

Class is a group of students or definite biological grouping. Fish need to be schooled about all this.

Does Van have class? His sense of humour onstage is very much working-class Brit.

Class or no class it doesn't matter! What's the point of going on if there is no God? No rules, no objective morality, no sense of purpose. All gone. Every thought or idea just an accident. Just a bag of molecules in motion says Richard Dawkins. There is no point in a world without God.

I agree with every post on this forum. I'm an agreeable sort of chap. I make friends with the world and, guess what, the world smiles back, my friend. Birds sing to me. Automatic doors open up to me. I could go "double diamond" in less than three months.

I thought the Mexicans streaming over the border were the new working class. Now every college kid wants to be a vet or a CSI investigator or a youtube sensation or handbag designer or app creator. No one wants to get their paws dirty. Funny world.

Question, folks. Is Van Morrison as crass a Frank Sinatra was? I've never thought of Mr. Morrison as racist for example.

Van grew up like me and millions of others. we had no money. We couldn't just make money making naff videos about eating all the different kinds of Oreos or dumb stuff like that. Van was busy writing poetry. Youtube has so man popular but dumb videos. Totally crass and dumb. DUM DUM DUM.

Let's all wind it down and get into soul. We all agree that James Brown is better than Van?