Stick it to The Man: MOJO picks Van’s ten greatest records The heart of all this might be the night of April 27, 1966, when Van Morrison, then 22-year-old frontman of riotous Belfast R&B outfit Them, met a 19-year-old Bay Area model called Janet Rigsbee. The meeting, at a roller rink in San Leandro, California, was, in the words of Rigsbee, “an alchemical whammo”. It was also fleeting.