It’s Wednesday morning, oops, afternoon, and the deadline for this month’s column is sort of breathing down my neck, but I’m actually not that worried about writing this review of Charles Yu’s ...

So begins Astral Weeks, the sublime, eight-song album released in 1968 with little fanfare, though it endures 50 years later as Van Morrison’s very finest achievement. He sensed an artist “transfixed ...

Van Morrison‘s landmark second LP, Astral Weeks, receives the deluxe reissue treatment on October 30th via Warner Bros. Along with 1970’s His Band and Street Choir, the 1968 album will come out in ...

Ambling into the Sixth Form Centre with Van Morrison’s 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview cradled nonchalantly under your arm ...

Well, it's official, but it was a long journey: Dec. 1, 2018, has been proclaimed "Van Morrison Astral Weeks Day" in the city of Cambridge. A lost history for 50 years has now become a concrete ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Boston and Cambridge roots of Van Morrison’s psych-rock masterpiece, Astral Weeks. In the course of my reporting, I attempted to track down everyone who was ...

Every once in a while, an album will be released that surprises not only the artist’s fans, but the record company it was released on. This was the case with Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks, ...

Even if Lewis Merenstein hadn’t produced records by Gladys Knight & the Pips, Miriam Makeba, John Cale, the Spencer Davis Group, Mama Cass Elliot and numerous other acts, music fans would owe him a ...

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It’s strange to imagine a Van Morrison concert without “Brown Eyed Girl,” but that was exactly what happened last November, when the Irish-born singer-songwriter played two concerts dedicated to the ...

Lewis Merenstein, producer on Van Morrison‘s classic Astral Weeks and Moondance LPs, died Tuesday from complications due to pneumonia. He was 81. Merenstein’s daughter Ilene confirmed his death to ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Boston and Cambridge roots of Van Morrison’s psych-rock masterpiece, Astral Weeks. In the course of my reporting, I attempted to track down everyone who was ...