It’s a jazzy pop record that slips in and out of time signatures with little regard for what was then cool or hip. Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is an anomaly in 1968. According to everyone who ever worked on the album, Morrison never introduced himself and just told them to play whatever they felt like playing. Free from his former contractual obligations he recorded the album with a bunch of jazz musicians without telling them what to play. He also had to buy that contract back from mobsters for $20,000 in order to he make the jump to Warner Bros. The short version of the story is that Morrison didn’t want to work with his then-current label, so to get out of his contract he recorded an album full of unreleasable nonsense songs. The story behind Astral Weeks, Van Morrison’s landmark album, is fraught with bad decisions, angry record executives, and the mafia.
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