That the couple were penniless was all the more galling, given that Morrison had a huge hit with ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ just six months earlier.īut the singer was tied into a now famously bad recording contract with a record company that Janet recalls “was filled with underworld types” who chased the couple out of New York. Still, Van wanted to continue on and make his music.” “It was a very scary time,” Morrison’s Californian girlfriend at the time, Janet, told me recently. Rather I wanted to find out how the album even came to be made in the first place.Īfter all, 1968 began with Van Morrison living in poverty, facing deportation from the US and threats from New York mobsters. Much has been said by the record’s many fans about the meaning of its impressionistic, ambiguous poetry.īut the question I wanted to ask to mark the anniversary was not about what Van meant in those eight remarkable songs. In fact, for its first thirty years in this world, ‘Astral Weeks’ led a humble and largely-forgotten existence. IT’S FIFTY YEARS this weekend since the final recording session for Van Morrison’s timeless album ‘Astral Weeks’.Īnd although these days it’s hard to avoid the album on Desert Island Discs, and on all the big lists of the best albums of all time, it wasn’t always like that.
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