![]() “Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend,” the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs wrote on the 10th anniversary of its release. Why does it strike so many as almost perfect? 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. New material will be added to that page through the end of 2018. All past articles and reader correspondence are collected here. The album was conceived in the milieu of Timothy Leary, recorded with session musicians fresh off commercial-jingle gigs, and only gradually recognized as something like magic.ĬONOR FRIEDERSDORF APVan Morrison at Spring Sing on Boston Common, April 20, 1968MONTUSE / DICK IACOVELLO / PENGUIN PRESSĮditor’s Note: This is part of The Atlantic’s ongoing series looking back at 1968. Behind the Masterpiece: Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks at 50 ![]()
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