Of Van Morrison's previous works had only suggested but like the Like the man who made Astral Weeks was in terrible pain, pain most Other big record of the day was White Light/White Heat.) It sounded Left to express artistically besides nihilism and destruction. Shores of the murk what's more, it was proof that there was something But in the condition I was in, itĪssumed at the time the quality of a beacon, a light on the far With the most significance in my life so far - no matter how I'dīeen feeling when it came out. Weeks would be the subject of this piece - i.e., the rock record I had no idea how to improve the situation and probably wouldn't Reading magazines, watching TV, listening to records, staring into I spent endless days and nights sunk in an armchair in my bedroom, None the presence of other people made me nervous and paranoid. My social contacts had dwindled to almost Mental wreck, nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and The fall of 1968 was such a terrible time: I was a physical and It was particularly important to me because Morrison's Astral Weeks was released ten years, almost to the day,īefore this was written.
