PAYING homage to the famous can be a tricky business as Belfast City Council and the Nobel Prize people know only too well. Each thought it would be grand to recognise a musical genius on the not unreasonable assumption that the chosen one would feel every bit as grand at being so honoured.
Sir Van Morrison’s reaction to being informed that his home-town proposed sticking a blue plaque at his childhood terraced home near the Titanic Quarter was not what they expected. He expressed his gratitude by making a song and dance about an ‘invasion of privacy’. If nothing else, it ...