3/9/2024 0 Comments Van morrison astral weeks bookIn the meantime, curiosity about the guitar incident piqued, I found an article Walsh wrote for Boston Magazine, wherein he interviewed the man who had wielded the instrument, a former New York tough-guy, with mob connections, called Carmine "Wassel" DeNoia.Ĭirca 1968, DeNoia had somehow acquired Morrison’s contract after the previous owner died suddenly from a heart attack. I haven't secured my copy of this page-turner yet. That's the subject of a fascinating new book, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, by Ryan H Walsh, a music writer in Boston (where much of the early work on the album happened).Īccording to one rave review, the book describes such events as how the songwriter had to leave New York months beforehand after “contractual difficulties involving the breaking of an acoustic guitar over Morrison’s head and the peppering of his hotel room door with bullets”. It'll be 50 years this autumn since Van Morrison recorded Astral Weeks, a masterpiece whose perfection was in contrast to the chaos out of which it was reportedly created.
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