Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to force the new Secretary of State, James Madison, to deliver the documents. The Court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, found firstly that Madison's refusal to deliver the commission was both illegal and correctible.
Ray Charles evidently is a hero of Van Morrison. in this song he refers to Ray Charles as The high priest.. Van Morrison has referred to Ray Charles in other compositions of his. In These Dreams of You from Moondance (1970), the lyric goes, And Ray Charles was shot down..
This answer is not exactly correct, but it's a good story! Ray Charles was about 5 when his younger brother died. His brother died by drowning in a portable laundry tub. At the age of 7 he went blind by, supposedly, untreated glaucoma.