My favourite album: Astral Weeks by Van Morrison

Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums ever – with a view that you might do the same – Laura Barton plumps for a song-cycle of 'poetry and mythical musings'In 1968, Van Morrison was 22 years old and one album down, a Northern Irishman in New York, with a fledgling career built on garage rock, TB Sheets and Brown Eyed Girls. He was also involved in a contract dispute with his label, Bang Records, that prevented him from recording, and disc...

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