With the most significance in my life so far - no matter how I'dīeen feeling when it came out. Weeks would be the subject of this piece - i.e., the rock record I had no idea how to improve the situation and probably wouldn't Reading magazines, watching TV, listening to records, staring into I spent endless days and nights sunk in an armchair in my bedroom, None the presence of other people made me nervous and paranoid. My social contacts had dwindled to almost Mental wreck, nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and The fall of 1968 was such a terrible time: I was a physical and It was particularly important to me because The song 'Astral Weeks' has been covered by Glen Hansard of The Frames, Brian Houston, and The Secret Machines on their EP The Road Leads Where It's Led.Morrison's Astral Weeks was released ten years, almost to the day,īefore this was written. Warren Smith, Jr. – percussion, vibraphone.'Astral Weeks' was featured on Morrison's album Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, released in 2009 to celebrate forty years since Astral Weeks was first released. 875 on the list of 885 Essential Songs voted on by listeners of WXPN in 2008. The song 'Astral Weeks' was rated #475 on the WXPN All Time Greatest Songs in 2004 and No. īrian Hinton's review of the song states: 'All is uncertain, this spiritual rebirth a question still, not a statement, and Van equates his move to a new world - both America and that of love- with a sense of being lost, 'ain't nothing but a stranger in this world'.

It's one of those songs where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and that's basically what the song says.' Morrison told Steve Turner that he was working on the song back in Belfast in 1966 when he visited painter Cecil McCartney who had drawings on astral projection 'and that's why I called it 'Astral Weeks'. I remember reading about you having to die to be born. Morrison described the song 'Astral Weeks' as being: 'like transforming energy, or going from one source to another with it being born again like a rebirth. John Payne, the flautist who had been working with Morrison, said it was the first time he had ever heard it, and that although the song may sound rehearsed it was actually captured from the only take. On the first recording session for the album on 25 September 1968, this song was the last of four recorded for that date.

' Astral Weeks' is the title song and opening track on the 1968 album Astral Weeks by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.

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