Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. Elvis Costello called it “the most adventurous record made in the rock medium” part of the late Jeff Buckley’s own myth is tied with his choice to cover “The Way Young Lovers Do.” The critic Lester Bangs claimed it contained “the quality of a beacon.” Joni Mitchell was so taken aback by the album that she badgered one of Van’s guitarists for information about him before finally meeting him: “What is he actually like?”Ī mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Philip Seymour Hoffman quoted it in his Oscar acceptance speech. Martin Scorsese claims the first fifteen minutes of Taxi Driver are based on it. Lauded as one of the greatest albums in the rock ’n’ roll canon, Astral Weeks feels less like rock, more like a benediction, a song cycle of rebirth. The Best Music Books of 2018 - Vinyl Me Please Top 20 Rock Books of 2018 - #1, Richie Unterbergerīest Books of the Year 2018 - Best Classic Bands Luna’s Dean Wareham: Favorite Things of 2018 - Brooklyn Vegan Janet Maslin’s Top Critic Picks 2018 - New York Timesīest Music Books of the Year, #3 - Mojo Magazineīest Music Books of 2018 - Minneapolis City Pages
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