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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Walsh, Ryan H.     Subjects     Morrison, Van, 1945- Astral weeks -- Analysis, appreciation.     Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.     Rock musicians -- Ireland -- Biography.     Singers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Lyricists -- Ireland -- Biography.     Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Walsh, Ryan H.       by title:      Astral weeks : a sec...       by call number:      781.66092 M882a     Search the Web     Walsh, Ryan H.     Morrison, Van, 1945- Astral weeks -- Analysis, appreciation.     Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.     Rock musicians -- Ireland -- Biography.     Singers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Lyricists -- Ireland -- Biography.     Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968 / Ryan H. Walsh. by Walsh, Ryan H. Penguin Press, 2018. Call #: 781.66092 M882a Subjects Morrison, Van, 1945- Astral weeks -- Analysis, appreciation.   Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.   Rock musicians -- Ireland -- Biography.   Singers -- Ireland -- Biography.   Lyricists -- Ireland -- Biography.   Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780735221345 (hc.) Description:  357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344), discography (pages 344-346), and index. Contents:  Prologue: in the beginning -- Against electricity -- God's underground newspaper -- The silver age of television -- Paul Revere is shamed: being a brief history of the Bosstown sound -- The white light underground -- Scenes from the real world -- I saw you coming from the cape -- A little more light into the darkness of man -- The noises that roar in the space between the worlds -- Something in the bricks -- We have all been astrals many times -- Epilogue: afterwards. Summary:  Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. Musician and journalist Ryan Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory, along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid experiments and film shoots, this is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.66092 M882a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.66092 M882a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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