Tore Down a la Rimbaud

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“Tore Down a la Rimbaud”
“Tore Down a la Rimbaud” cover
Single by Van Morrison
from the album A Sense of Wonder
A-side "Tore Down a la Rimbaud"
B-side Haunts of Ancient Peace (live)
Format 12" single
Recorded 1983
Genre Celtic, Rock & Roll
Length 4:09
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Van Morrison
Producer Van Morrison
Van Morrison singles chronology
"A Sense of Wonder"
(1984)		 "Tore Down a la Rimbaud"
(1985)		 "Ivory Tower"
(1986)
A Sense of Wonder track listing
"Tore Down a la Rimbaud"
(1)		 "Ancient of Days"
(2)

"Tore Down a la Rimbaud" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1985 album, A Sense of Wonder.

The title of the song derives from French poet Arthur Rimbaud who became famous for his poetry at the age of fifteen in 1869 and who quit writing six years later. Morrison had begun writing the song in 1975 during the three year professionally inactive time period after he released the album, Veedon Fleece. Morrison was quoted as saying, "It took a long time to finish, eight years before I got the rest of the lines. That's the longest I've ever carried a song around."[1]

Contents

[edit] Appearance on other albums

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Rogan, No Surrender, p.356

[edit] References

  • Rogan, Johnny (2006). Van Morrison:No Surrender, London:Vintage Books ISBN 9780099431831

[edit] External links