Astral Weeks is the second solo album released by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1968 in music). Employing a mixture of folk, blues, jazz, and classical music, Astral Weeks received critical acclaim immediately upon its first release and subsequently has been placed on numerous widely-circulated lists of best albums of all time. The 1995 MOJO list of 100 Best Albums, ranked it...
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Astral Weeks is the second solo album released by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1968 in music). Employing a mixture of folk, blues, jazz, and classical music, Astral Weeks received critical acclaim immediately upon its first release and subsequently has been placed on numerous widely-circulated lists of best albums of all time. The 1995 MOJO list of 100 Best Albums, ranked it as #2, and it received the #19 ranking on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. It became and remains a cult favourite, despite the fact that it failed to achieve significant mainstream sales success for decades. (After 33 years, it finally achieved gold in 2001).
Astral Weeks was reissued by Warner Bros. on 180 g. vinyl in December 2008.
At the beginning of 1968, Van Morrison became involved in a contract dispute with Bang Records that kept him away from any recording activity. The situation was worsened by the sudden...
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