The poetically-titled 'Latest Record Project: Volume 1' will be released on May 7th and the tracklisting along is quite something. Now, Morrison has announced the release of his 42nd album and it looks like he's taking this crusade further. One of them, with Eric Clapton, had lyrics like ' “Do you wanna be a free man/ Or do you wanna be a slave?” The 75-year-old Belfast native has made his feelings on the restrictions and rules around the Covid pandemic very clear, slamming the idea of socially-distanced gigs as 'pseudo-science' and releasing several coronavirus protest songs. He may be a living legend in the music world, but Van Morrison has lost a number of fans over the past year thanks to his various outbursts.