
Sir George Ivan Morrison’s shifting assessment can’t blunt the album’s singular, hypnotic power. Related: We look back at another Van classic, His Band and Street Choir Within weeks of Astral Weeks’ completion, Van Morrison would distance himself from some of the production choices after performing the album in its entirety in 1969, he would virtually excise its eight songs from his live shows until 2008, when he ended that boycott to mount note-for-note live performances of the songs and arrangements to mark its 40th anniversary. Walsh’s Astral Weeks-A Secret History of 1968, a wide-ranging and discursive look at Boston’s pop-cultural landscape that chronicles how the artist had fled to Cambridge in the wake of his battle with Bang and producer Bert Berns. How Morrison had arrived at that transformation remains partly shrouded by his notoriously mercurial temperament, as detailed in Ryan H. Henry Diltz: Eyewitness to Laurel Canyon’s ‘60s Music Legends.The ‘Truth’ According to Jeff Beck: A Genre-Busting Masterpiece.The Nine #1 Albums of 1981: Take It on the Run.Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll? A Vote For Sam Phillips.Paul Anka Interview: So Square That He’s Hip.When Fleetwood Mac Played 2017’s Classic East in NYC, With Lindsey Buckingham.Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass’ ‘Whipped Cream & Other Delights’: Sweet & Swinging.Lady Gaga Pays Tribute to Tony Bennett: ‘I Will Miss My Friend Forever’.

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