This is a casino chip from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas that celebrates Van Morrison at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino On December 31, 2000.
Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s. He played a variety of instruments such as guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for several Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band Them. With Them, he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". One side of the chip features the shadow of Van Morrison in black. "In The Midnight" in white letters from the album Back On Top 1999.
