It it isn't a rock and roll album at all. Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history, but for all that renown, it is anything but an archetypal rock and roll album.
Liner Note Authors: Van Morrison Cory Frye. Personnel: Van Morrison (vocals, guitar) Jay Berliner (guitar) John Payne (flute, soprano saxophone) Warren Smith (vibraphone, percussion) Connie Kay (drums). (vibraphone, percussion) Richard Davis (bass) Connie Kay (drums). He says that he has sold paintings to such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey and Bono and has made a peace offering to Van - an abstract painting called Astral Nano Seconds.Personnel includes: Van Morrison (vocals, acoustic guitar) Larry Fallon (arranger) Jay Berliner (guitar) John Payne (flute, soprano saxophone) Warren Smith, Jr. He is best known as a painter and now lives in Ireland.
It seems that he was the inspiration for Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album but had a long standing feud with him following an argument in 1989 about whether Myra Hindley's conversion to religion was genuine or not (Cecil thought not). It's not really to my taste - pretentious nonsense in my opinion - and I've put it on Ebay, but it turns out that Cecil has an interesting back story. Most of the17 tracks are written by McCartney - apparently a distant cousin of Paul - with the addition of others by Dylan, Paul Simon and Gordon Lightfoot. Something told me that it was worth buying - particularly as it cost a mere 30p - and sure enough it turns out to be a collectable hippie style psych folk album. Cecil McCartney is not a name that means much to me musically, but I was intrigued when I came across his Columbia LP OM, from 1968, in a charity shop yesterday.
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