Astral Weeks

...- Astral Weeks (Warner Bros, 1968) In a paean to the album that he considered the most significant in his life, influential rock journalist Lester Bangs calls Astral Weeks "a mystical document". Even Van Morrison himself admitted to...

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They had told me they had to buy out the Bang deal, then I got involved with [producer Lewis] Merenstein, et al. The real reason I made 'Astral Weeks' recordings in New York is because I was literally broke and they kept me stranded there."

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Astral Weeks Astral Weeks is the second solo album released by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1968 in music). Employing a mixture of folk, blues, jazz, and classical...

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...new Listen to the Lion label and distributed by EMI. The live performances of the eight original songs that feature on the album were recorded on November 7 and 08, 2008. Coincidentally, they took place forty years after the classic...

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...for producing Van Morrison's Astral Weeks). The album fared even worse than Stop Your Motor, reaching #194, while a single of The Lovin' Spoonful's "Darlin' Be Home Soon" failed to break the Hot 100. For the band, however, the worst was yet to...

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...- ''Mojo '' His first album for Warner Bros. Records was Astral Weeks (which he had already performed in several clubs around Boston), a mystical song cycle, often considered to be his best work. Morrison has said, "When Astral Weeks came...

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