[84] In 1998, it was voted the 9th greatest album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4 and The Guardian. The songs weren’t written so much as channeled from someplace else. "That was the whole point of having this particular group of people. New love. "It's totally fictional. It also has a setting of Cyprus Avenue in Belfast with impressionistic lyrics that give stream-of-conscious details that are seemingly unrelated. More surprisingly, it was also voted ninth greatest album of all time in the more populist Music of the Millennium poll conducted by Channel 4, the Guardian, HMV and Classic FM in 1997. He pleads with his mind to keep quiet, so his heart can hear itself think. How did it reach these people, just in the sense of from here to there, of roundabout? Steve Turner relates how it was "one of the essential albums for travellers on the 'hippie trail' from Europe through to Kathmandu and there were even reports of vans painted in psychedelic colours being renamed 'the Van Morrison'.

“I based the first 15 minutes of Taxi Driver on Astral Weeks,” Martin Scorsese said while promoting his 1978 movie The Last Waltz. Perhaps best known for his work with Eric Dolphy, Davis essentially served as the session leader, and it was through Davis that Merenstein recruited guitarist Jay Berliner, percussionist Warren Smith, Jr., and drummer Connie Kay. Boggle gives you 3 minutes to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters. The cover art, music and lyrics of the album portray the symbolism equating earthly love and heaven that would often feature in Morrison's work. You couldn't have known.". Brian Hinton describes it as there being "a Sinatra strut to Van's voice, a blues knowingness with Stax brass, and a string section which swirls where previously it drifted."

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Released in November 1968, Astral Weeks is a work of such singular beauty, such sustained emotional intensity, that nothing recorded before or since sounds even remotely similar - or, indeed… He was caught up in his own thing. "[55], "Astral Weeks songs...were from another sort of place—not what is at all obvious. See if you can get into the grid Hall of Fame !

"One was about Jesse James and the other about trains.

In When That Rough God Goes Riding, Marcus marvels, “A few years ago, in a class I was teaching, four students out of sixteen, none of them older than twenty-one, named it as the album they most loved. But shortly before Them broke up, they toured America, and it was at a gig in San Francisco that Morrison met Janet Rigsbee, a 19-year-old model who happened to be attending her very first rock concert that night.

2008 Decides finally to revisit Astral Weeks. "[23] He told Ritchie Yorke that only two tracks recorded during the sessions did not make it to the album. "[Morrison] had all these words", Armstrong says, "we sort of formalized it, 'cause there was no structure to it".