Sod Sgt Pepper's...

Having just listened to Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' over and over again last week while writing about it for the Observer Review, I am more convinced than ever of its unassailable greatness. Nothing in popular music compares with it in terms of its passionate intensity. No one in popular music has sung like that before or since. The late Spike Milligan, of all people, once described Van Morrison's voice as a mixture of 'menace and abandonment'. You can hear what he means on 'Astral ...

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