So begins Astral Weeks, the sublime, eight-song album released in 1968 with little fanfare, though it endures 50 years later as Van Morrison’s very finest achievement. He sensed an artist “transfixed ...

Van Morrison‘s landmark second LP, Astral Weeks, receives the deluxe reissue treatment on October 30th via Warner Bros. Along with 1970’s His Band and Street Choir, the 1968 album will come out in ...

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His first album for Warner Bros. Records was Astral Weeks (which he had already performed in several clubs around Boston), a mystical song cycle, considered by many to be his best work. Morrison has ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Boston and Cambridge roots of Van Morrison’s psych-rock masterpiece, Astral Weeks. In the course of my reporting, I attempted to track down everyone who was ...

What started as a few shows to revisit Van Morrison‘s 1968 classic Astral Weeks — an album he’d never previously performed live — has blossomed into a much larger celebration of the LP. First, ...

I first heard "Astral Weeks" while lying in bed in the darkness of a coldwater Rathmines flat. I was listening to BBC Radio late at night on my old transistor radio. I must have been dozing for I ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Boston and Cambridge roots of Van Morrison’s psych-rock masterpiece, Astral Weeks. In the course of my reporting, I attempted to track down everyone who was ...