But that’s all good for people pre-disposed to the subjects at hand. “Astral Weeks” goes the second route and one can assume the “secret history” is what Walsh determines it is. These books generally use one of two marketing strategies: superlatives (“1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music”) or the promise of esoteric information (“Fire and Rain: The Lost Story of 1970”). There have been many good-to-great music books in recent years that focus on one particular year of the Sixties or Seventies. Walsh uses the making of Van’s cerebral classic as a philosophical thread that stitches them together. That year saw a whole host of decade-defining events and personalities criss-crossing each other in the greater Boston area. By 1968, in the aftermath of his surprise solo hit “Brown-Eyed Girl,” Morrison was living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts not far from Harvard Square. Van Morrison was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland where he first came to prominence with the group Them. The chaotic and convoluted process that would yield one of pop music’s most revolutionary and acclaimed albums is the story that anchors this captivating 2018 work by Ryan H.
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