Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory-along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. 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. A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
