Last year, at the peak of the pandemic, the Irish rock legend Van Morrison made his displeasure with the UK’s lockdown measures very well-known. Morrison released a statement about “pseudo-science,” planned a legal challenge against the live-music ban in Northern Ireland, and shared a series of anti-lockdown protest songs, including “Born To Be Free” and the Eric Clapton collaboration “Do You Want To Be A Slave?” Right now, Morrison is getting ready to release his new double album Latest Record Project: Volume 1, which includes songs like “They Own The Media,” “Why Are You On Facebook?,” and “Where Have All The Rebels Gone?” In a recent interview, Morrison claimed that people are mad at him because freedom of speech is not currently “in the framework.”