![]() ![]() The result is a portrait of a time and place so expansive it makes the creation of Astral Weeks, one of the most transcendent and lasting albums of the ’60s, seem nearly incidental. These intersections created pathways in music culture that are visible to this day. Which is to say, it’s a Van Morrison book that is also about the Velvet Underground (whose White Light/White Heat was released in January ’68), LSD seers, the making of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point as it relates to a hippie cult and its messianic leader, and the messy relationship between Boston’s chaotic underground and its repressive mainstream. But the mystery of why and how the singer-songwriter came to be in Boston-a faltering Belfast phoenix landing in a fizzled folk scene-is merely the entry point for Walsh’s romp through the city’s countercultural history. Walsh pursues the story behind the inspiration and creation of the now-classic Van Morrison album of the same name, searching for the unexplored answers that have been hiding in plain sight. IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H.
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