Van Morrison‘s landmark second LP, Astral Weeks, receives the deluxe reissue treatment on October 30th via Warner Bros. Along with 1970’s His Band and Street Choir, the 1968 album will come out in ...

Well, it's official, but it was a long journey: Dec. 1, 2018, has been proclaimed "Van Morrison Astral Weeks Day" in the city of Cambridge. A lost history for 50 years has now become a concrete ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Boston and Cambridge roots of Van Morrison’s psych-rock masterpiece, Astral Weeks. In the course of my reporting, I attempted to track down everyone who was ...

Even if Lewis Merenstein hadn’t produced records by Gladys Knight & the Pips, Miriam Makeba, John Cale, the Spencer Davis Group, Mama Cass Elliot and numerous other acts, music fans would owe him a ...

Every once in a while, an album will be released that surprises not only the artist’s fans, but the record company it was released on. This was the case with Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks, ...

Van Morrison celebrates his eightieth birthday with Belfast shows and renewed U.K. chart success, as Remembering Now and Astral Weeks both reenter the downloads list. Singer/ Songwriter Van Morrison ...

It’s strange to imagine a Van Morrison concert without “Brown Eyed Girl,” but that was exactly what happened last November, when the Irish-born singer-songwriter played two concerts dedicated to the ...

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I first heard "Astral Weeks" while lying in bed in the darkness of a coldwater Rathmines flat. I was listening to BBC Radio late at night on my old transistor radio. I must have been dozing for I ...