Unfortunately, they only released it on iTunes in Britain for about 24 hours, and it's already gone! This apparently was done to maintain legal rights to the recording, given that there is a European copyright law that says the rights are lost after 50 years unless the recording is made available for sale to the public somewhere in Europe, if only briefly. until now!Ī few days ago (early November 2018), Morrison's record company released the album "Live in Boston 1968" that has long been the unattainable holy grail for Morrison fans. There never have been any publicly available audio recording of his time in Boston that year. He spent most of 1968 living in Boston and developing the unique sound that would result in that album.
In November 1968, Van Morrison released the album "Astral Weeks," which is so acclaimed that on an average of greatest albums of all time lists, it ranks number 15. loved the new music Morrison was penning, with producer Lewis Merenstein going on record as saying that he actually started crying the first time he heard the title track to Astral Weeks.Here's something very new, very great, and very unexpected. to pursue him for a new record deal, one which he was only able to sign after WB did a whole lotta wrangling with Bang. Still, the success he’d achieved from his single “Brown-Eyed Girl” was enough for Warner Bros. Van Morrison is living with his wife, Janet Rigsbee, signed to a famously loathsome contract with Bang Records which not only prevented him from recording anything new but also effectively kept him from picking up any gigs in New York City. Of those albums, there’s one that invariably sits perched in the topmost spot: Astral Weeks, the LP that is to Morrison’s discography what Pet Sounds is to The Beach Boys’ back catalog.
That said, Van Morrison has delivered albums over the course of his career which are so powerful and moving that even if some people can’t forgive him his transgressions, they can at least forget them for the duration of those albums. His full and formal title is Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE, but he’s better known as Van, and let’s face it: he’s a real piece of work, an artist who’s never been afraid to do what he wants, say what he wants, and express himself in a manner that often thoroughly infuriates large chunks of his fanbase.
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